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Progress happens with every death (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those discoveries benefit all of us in turn. Microwave ovens, digital cameras, water filters, freeze drying, memory foam, and many other inventions we use daily were created by funding scientists to collaboratively solve problems unique to space.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And literally all of modern electronics works in no small part because of our understanding of calculus, which, in turn, wouldn't exist if we didn't ponder the concepts of infinities in mathematics. Which might seem like one of the most removed from reality ideas, but here we are