• zaphod@feddit.de
    12·
    1 year ago

    politicians suddenly got very worried about actual scientific competitiveness and winning a competitive race on something other than bombs.

    They just feared possible military applications and didn’t want to fall behind.

    • psmgx@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Aye. Was a dick wagging competition, but the subtext was “we can do this with ICBMs and their countermeasures”.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Point completely taken, but they at least managed to provide some window-dressing that they were advancing the state of science and knowledge.

      • zaphod@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        advancing the state of science and knowledge

        I mean they did, and then they used it to build arms.