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Re:US Army applying new areas of math by throwaaaway1231 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:07PM (#19458558)
You say he is joking, but that person does know. I work at a research lab and at our yearly reviews, we have to day how our work directly contributes to a war fighting capacity. If that person thinks they do not contribute they are very seriously naïve or they are filling themselves.

Military labs do not try to make euphemisms for what they do, they want to make sure they directly contribute to a war fighting capability.

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Re:US Army applying new areas of math by whatshisface on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:13PM (#19458591)
There are varying degrees of "military lab," my favorite example being the National Ignition Facility.
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Re:US Army applying new areas of math by beambot on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:24AM (#19460249)
The NIF has a military mission too. Straight from Wikipedia:

> NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility

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Re:US Army applying new areas of math by throwaaaway1231 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:29PM (#19458678)
Heh, can you say more about it?

That is true. I am military and I work in a true military lab, so I probably have a different perspective

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