last time I was on this gyges suggested it was an artefact of how much american nerds are trained MIC bootlickers
Forth 🏝️
cold war propaganda is baked into our scientific culture to a level that is difficult to overstate. the entirety of our mythos about space is meant to justify icbm development costs. lots of work in physics, especially nuclear physics, was only plausibly ethical if you had the DoD as a sin eater
