Point completely taken, but they at least managed to provide some window-dressing that they were advancing the state of science and knowledge.
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zaphod@feddit.de 7 months agopoliticians suddenly got very worried about actual scientific competitiveness and winning a competitive race on something other than bombs.
They just feared possible military applications and didn’t want to fall behind.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
zaphod@feddit.de 7 months ago
advancing the state of science and knowledge
I mean they did, and then they used it to build arms.
psmgx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Aye. Was a dick wagging competition, but the subtext was “we can do this with ICBMs and their countermeasures”.