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I'm just thinking right now about how we have terrible knowledge silos at work and how screwed we'd be if these people won the lottery. I'm pretty sure NASA had
by ashleyn 7y ago
I'm just thinking right now about how we have terrible knowledge silos at work and how screwed we'd be if these people won the lottery. I'm pretty sure NASA had the same problem and we can't rebuild a Saturn V even if we wanted to. Didn't we also forget how to build nuclear bombs or something?
- cbanek 7y agoNo, sadly there's money in building nuclear bombs. But we might be at risk of losing track of where the nuclear waste is, and how to keep track of it. So here's the standard for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
- DanBC 7y agoThere was this about a component called "fogbank" : https://inmilitary.com/lost-technology-a-weapon-so-classified-even-the-us-government-forgot-it-existed/ https://inmilitary.com/lost-technology-a-weapon-so-classifie... Discussed here this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115211
- DanBC 7y agoI think you're talking about "fogbank"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115211