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Re:The Dark Side of Nobel Prizewinning Research by hchenji on Sunday October 04, 2015 @09:28PM (#10329540)
Why should we care how the science was applied?

'"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down That's not my department," - says Wernher von Braun' - Tom Lehrer

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Re:The Dark Side of Nobel Prizewinning Research by wodenokoto on Sunday October 04, 2015 @10:27PM (#10329666)
If it can't be applied for anything useful, was it really a scientific breakthrough?
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