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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 12 hours ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Your comment just reminded me of a sci-fi short story about how humans solve every problem eith explosions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/16fx8tc/humans_solve_problems_with_explosions/