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		anaolykarpov on March 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We have socialised the risk of innovation but priv... If it wasnt for the cold war and the space race, I really doubt that NASA would have ever been created. Should we seek for another cold war because its a medium in which some kind of innovation occur? So are regular wars? Should we demand our states to start wars because technology advances during those times?

nmrm2 on March 9, 2015 [–]

Or we could demand our states care as much about advancing human knowledge during peace time as they do during war time.

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