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[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Darwin ate every damned thing he came across.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That’s gross.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Recycled protein.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

How?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Just like how anthropological archeologists compete to eat the oldest thing they find

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

most likely other humans eat it first, they just didn't write it down and publish it

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

She didn't envision a lot of things

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