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Imagine the energy and money spent on bickering and wars and ultimately useless junk were not.

• kbutler 8y ago
  I'm not a fan of war, but many technologies and sciences were developed for military use, everything from mathematics for ballistics, food preservation, thermodynamics, antibiotics, nuclear energy, the lunar program, and GPS. So yes, war is a horrendous waste and terrible detriment to humanity, but even war has had some beneficial side effects.
  • pishpash 8y ago
    The same effort can be put into inventing these in the absence of conflict. You do need funding and you do need urgency, but that's a question of national will.
    • kbutler 8y ago
      ...and war seems to be the most effective source of national will.
    • stordoff 8y ago
      Unfortunately, it (often) _isn't_. I'd love to live in that world, but it doesn't seem realistic.
• MarcysVonEylau 8y ago
  Just wait until you hear about Wernher von Braun.
  • pishpash 8y ago
    And how is that a refutation, logically?
    • deleted 8y ago
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    • MarcysVonEylau 8y ago
      War has enabled his "useless" creations.