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[โ€“] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago (9 children)

this type of science-discovery to usefulness-realization latency is the norm, pretty sure Curie didn't envision nuclear power plants

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

She didn't envision a lot of things

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