Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion

Re:Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed E... by hobls on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:46AM (#17575404)

There are lots of reasons to spend money on military technology, but absolute reduction in deaths by U.S. citizens is not a compelling one — there are just too many civilians who die in preventable ways as compared to military deaths.

I think it’s kind of a silly comparison, tbh. I’d like to see us spend more money on both civilian and military research. I suspect that the military spends plenty of money on shit that is less impactful in the long term than research, and military research also often advances civilian technology.

My point was meant to be quite narrow.

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Re:Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed E... by ryanx435 on Sunday July 22, 2018 @01:45PM (#17587874)

Would you rather we have wars were America doesn't have a significant advantage?

Maybe like the civil war, where both sides were equal and 750,000 Americans died?

Or WW2, fighting against an arguably better Nazi and Japanese military killed 400,000 Americans?

Or WW1, where the stalemate between both sides led to 120,000 american deaths?

You must be right because all those american deaths are preferable to only 2,000 americans who died in the wars in Afghanistan.

/s obviously

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