• Hyggyldy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think often such things merely accelerate the time line. I’m pretty sure the urge to go look at the big shiny thing in the sky has been with us a looong time. We would have gotten there eventually one way or another.

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        1 year ago

        It would also probably go even faster if we just stopped requiring things to be “”“economical”“” to get research.

    • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That’s sadly a very good point. I work in the biomedical sphere and it is an uncomfortable topic that a lot of our knowledge would not exist without the horrible experiments done on people during the second world war.