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eppur_se_muova

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1. Inventions are like children -- you can bring them into the world, but you can't control their ultimate fate.
Wed May 27, 2026, 11:59 PM
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You don't really even have the option of trying to raise them right. As long as they're based on universal scientific principles, anyone with the necessary know-how and technology can create their own versions.

And it's no good smothering them in the crib -- someone else will eventually make the same discoveries, or insights, that lead down the same road. As the world learned after the US and allies created the atomic bomb, and found it reproduced (USSR, China) and extended (hydrogen bomb).

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