Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of science drivin...
by qqqqquinnnnn on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:12PM
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Folks elsewhere have mentioned things like EPA regulation of chemicals - hard to argue that even though it could be better that there haven't been many great things that have happened directly as a result of that act. See the Cuyahoga river: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...
Maybe some areas of aviation, like definitions of twilight? Surveying laws? It would be banal stuff like that