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Better late than never. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 10 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

They should use some of it to rebuild a historical war ship for experimental research and coolness like they did for the French Hermione that carried General La Fayette to the USA in 1780 to join the American Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_(2014)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Capitalism is slowly strangling any hope of this sort of thing. We need to rein in capitalism hard before we'll get cool stuff like this again. If a case can't be made for how a new expensive thing will make the rich richer, then it doesn't happen.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Ehhh there's plenty of cool stuff being built and done without real economic incentive. Just look at the number of old steam locomotives that are being restored, or the number of new-build steam locomotives. These are multimillion dollar projects with no conceivable return on investment, yet people keep doing them because these are cool things that can be done!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    L'Hermione was rebuilt with public money and sailed all over the world. But after many years it needs costly reparations, it has financial troubles and it's looking for private sponsors to help.

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