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"Eventually" is a pretty long time. If you were in 1959, would you press a button that caused satellites and freeze-dried food and flight computers to arrive 20
by jxf 3y ago
"Eventually" is a pretty long time. If you were in 1959, would you press a button that caused satellites and freeze-dried food and flight computers to arrive 20 years earlier if it cost $10 billion to press? That saves billions of lives over the next 50 years and dramatically accelerates humanity's technology tree, so it seems like it's worth it.
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- dekhn 3y agofreeze dried food was invented in France around the time of WWI. Flight computers predated Apollo- they were originally developed for missles. most of the folks who worked on the AGC had previously developed very successful flight computers already.
- shtopointo 3y agoInflated numbers. Also counterfactual reasoning: "had it not been for the space program, we wouldn't have developed these technologies and billions of lives wouldn't have been saved." Also – billions? Seems like an overreach.
- Vvector 3y ago> freeze-dried food The modern process was invented in 1890, and used extensively in WW2.
- kalleboo 3y agoFor blood plasma and penicillin, not food