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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose it's like asking a biologist what type of dishes would they do with a plant species they just discovered

[–] xylol@leminal.space 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is that not what drives biologists, trying to eat new discoveries before someone else

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Darwin ate every damned thing he came across.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Recycled protein.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Just like how anthropological archeologists compete to eat the oldest thing they find

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

most likely other humans eat it first, they just didn't write it down and publish it

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

She didn't envision a lot of things