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Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

this type of science-discovery to usefulness-realization latency is the norm, pretty sure Curie didn't envision nuclear power plants

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I suppose it's like asking a biologist what type of dishes would they do with a plant species they just discovered

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Is that not what drives biologists, trying to eat new discoveries before someone else

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Darwin ate every damned thing he came across.

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