Sequentialsilence ,

I’m just going to leave this here

using molten lithium as a rocket fuel

wuphysics87 ,

Alfred Nobel, the originator of the Nobel prize, invented dynamite believing mutually assured destruction would end war.

Aurenkin ,

To be fair, mutually assured destruction likely will end war but maybe not in the way we hope.

napoleonsdumbcousin ,

Your comment is only technically correct, so I am gonna add to that:

Alfred Nobel did invent dynamite and was also a believer in mutually assured destruction, BUT: those two facts are not directly connected.

Dynamite in itself was not intended for warfare, but for mining. It was still relatively unstable so not really suited for warfare. (TNT, which came around 1900, solved that problem.)

Nobel did invent smokeless powder for warfare and he transformed Bofors into an arms manufacturing company though.

https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-thoughts-about-war-and-peace/

Nemo ,

Putting chili directly in the bag of Fritos.

HootinNHollerin ,

Nuclear bazooka

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/74acdd43-7778-45d1-8539-358e97147d7e.jpeg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits

Brkdncr ,

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185280180/florida-roads-radioactive-desantis-signs-law

Etterra ,

Including political science?

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