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Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?

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What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?

Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    Nuclear bazooka

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

    But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits

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      In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being “too provocative.” Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.

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      The people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.

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    Alfred Nobel, the originator of the Nobel prize, invented dynamite believing mutually assured destruction would end war.

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      To be fair, mutually assured destruction likely will end war but maybe not in the way we hope.

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        To be fair, it has been holding off nuclear war since 1949.

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    I’m just going to leave this here

    using molten lithium as a rocket fuel

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    I’m amazed that Project Orion went on as long as it did.

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      That link doesn’t work for me, so incase anyone has the same issue… [Project Orion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion\))

      Trick is to add a backslash before the two closing brackets, like this:

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    https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law

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    Including political science?

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