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Originally Posted by crucifissio
ah the arms race...forcing other countries to steer $$ from education and healthcare to keep up with the klingons  how productive for the world... |
That's one way of looking at it.
But on the other hand, all of the money we have invested into our military has paid back huge dividends. Let's take, for examples, computers. Computers were first conceived by Alan Turing, who.... The first real computers were Torpedo Data Computers used on United States submarines during WWII. ENIAC was the first Turing-complete computer, which was used by the... US Army. Fuck me in the ass with a chain saw, the Internet itself started as ARPANET, which was run by... The United States Department of Defense.
It's just like saying the space race was a waste of money - look at all the way society benefited from the space program.