• @[email protected]
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    3211 months ago

    How to construct systems which are used for civil applications but can easily be turned into weapons.

    Or the good old question of science and responsibility: do you use nuclear fission to create energy or to kill an enormous amount of people?

    • @Buffaloaf
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      1311 months ago

      In engineering school there was a joke a professor told us:

      What’s the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?

      Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets.

    • @CaptainProton
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      811 months ago

      Any kind of energy can be used for good or diverted for evil. Transport vehicles have a lot of kinetic energy, etc.

    • kase
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      611 months ago

      Fritz Haber has entered the chat