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Larry Schweikart's avatar

Loved that show, though he took liberties.

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Jerry N's avatar

I always enjoyed James Burke's "Connections" shows. They illustrate how almost every great invention or discovery were generally "accidents" that came about by someone making a connection between an existing technology and applying it in a way that wasn't ever imagined by the original creator. It makes the hubris & fatal conceit of government thinking it can create things by top-down decree even more jaw-dropping. (example: deciding that by throwing billion$ around among the legacy players, a better battery will be invented, or Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" - parts I & II)

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