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I'm eternally confused as to why other countries don't do this. The Manhattan Project resulted in so many great minds, purely due to the cross-pollination of al

by taneq 3y ago

I'm eternally confused as to why other countries don't do this. The Manhattan Project resulted in so many great minds, purely due to the cross-pollination of all those geniuses in such a small place. You'd think any nation state would be gunning for the same advantage.

pclmulqdq 3y ago
Manhattan projects don't really work unless you feel that you are under existential threat. Israelis perpetually do.
psunavy03 3y ago
Look at all the protests going on at places like Google. There's a segment of the population, especially in tech, that is irrationally anti-military. Somehow people think if we all held hands and sang Kumbaya, all the evil wars would stop, as if people like Vladimir Putin didn't exist.
- lapphi 3y ago
  Think the idea here is that the US supplies the weapons for those wars and we should stop doing that.
  - psunavy03 3y ago
    Which is a clueless idea, but it's an idea. The US refusing to supply weapons would have, if anything, encouraged Putin to be even more genocidal.
dotnet00 3y ago
The US does kind of do this through its national labs. They just don't have the thriller-esque story of the Manhattan project to romanticize things and aren't wasting their intellect on maximizing doomscrolling.