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I think a great portion of these developments and discoveries can be directly related to the technology that came out of WW2. Sonar gave us the mid-Atlantic ridge, thus plate tectonics; radar gave us radio astronomy; the Manhattan Project gave the impetus for nuclear energy technology.
Oh yeah. Wernher von Braun....
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