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Who was it that wrote that had the millions of lives and trillions of dollars wasted in the World Wars been applied instead to peaceful pursuit of science, we w
by Cushman 13y ago
Who was it that wrote that had the millions of lives and trillions of dollars wasted in the World Wars been applied instead to peaceful pursuit of science, we would easily have had a man on the moon by 1950?
Wishful thinking, of course, but man, what a thought.
- cryptoz 13y agoImagine if the Greeks and Romans had continued their libraries, science and research 2000 years ago. If they hadn't fallen to Christianity and other religions, I'd bet we'd have been a spacefaring species around year 500 or 1000 maybe.