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A “manhattan project” can just mean a massive secret scientific war project? Seems apt.
by wood_spirit 10mo ago
A “manhattan project” can just mean a massive secret scientific war project? Seems apt.
- agumonkey 10mo agoand a critical nation scale ambition
- makeitdouble 10mo agoThey have high security, and obfuscating the premises is part of it, but is it really secret in any way ? I mean, we're knowing exactly what they're aiming for and could compare notes at the end of it. Is it war ? in a "everything is a war" political sense, perhaps, but not in any other sense. We're left with "massive project" for the analogy, that's kinda weak really.
- why-o-why 10mo ago>> is it a war? people love to be reductionist... i wonder what aspects of a culture make everyone so black/white us/them ingroup/outgroup. Is it particular to the US, or like, is France the same way? Or Ghana? Or is it just human that everything is a war? Naqoyqattsi.
- why-o-why 10mo agoI think the Manhattan Project is a poor analogy. Moonshot is more like it.