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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by whatshisface on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:57PM (#31995939)
>which is why a big war is often also a big leap forward for science.

Care to name any inventions we owe to... the Spanish-American war?

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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by civilized on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:27PM (#31996072)
Sure, there were about as many as there were dollars in the federal government's scientific budget at the time.
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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by whatshisface on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @11:21AM (#32002316)
Then a better hypothesis would be that the science budget makes progress happen, rather than the military budget.
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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by samatman on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @12:04AM (#31996575)
The M1903 Springfield.
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Re:Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles by paulmd on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:47PM (#32008727)
it's extremely humorous how "trend-chasing" the small arms market was at that time. First cartridges... then brass cartridges... then centerfire... then brass... then repeating weapons... then high-velocity cartridges... then spitzer point bullets... it's almost a Pentagon Wars style story chasing the latest technological developments and often trying to modify your existing inventory to fit the latest need.

The Krag didn't have spitzer-point bullets so it had to go, despite poor tactics really being more at play than the rifles themselves. And the Krag was banned from the service-rifle category of the influential National Match shooting competition after some humiliating upsets showed this.

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