The Manhattan Project
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It's a sad but inescapable fact some of the greatest advances in science have come from humanity's more destructive impulses. German chemist, Fritz Haber for example, figured out how to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere to create gigantic bombs, used to kill people in the World War I But his technology was also used to make the world's first synthetic fertilizers, which revolutionized how the world feeds itself. Gunpowder, similarly, was discovered by ancient Chinese alchemists, but was developed by Europeans who used it to conquer half of the world. None of these is science's fault. When we discovered powerful truths about the universe, it's up to us to decide how to use them because they can either be boons to humanity or banes. And the...
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It's a sad but inescapable fact some of the greatest advances in science have come from humanity's more destructive impulses. German chemist, Fritz Haber for example, figured out how to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere to create gigantic bombs, used to kill people in the World War I But his technology was also used to make the world's first synthetic fertilizers, which revolutionized how the world feeds itself. Gunpowder, similarly, was discovered by ancient Chinese alchemists, but was developed by Europeans who used it to conquer half of the world. None of these is science's fault. When we discovered powerful truths about the universe, it's up to us to decide how to use them because they can either be boons to humanity or banes. And the...
