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Originally Posted by Captain Trips
Maybe.
If we stop finding reasons to kill each other 
I don't see that happening for a very long time. |
Arguably our tendancy to kill each other is a plus to scientific advancement. At no time is new technology developed quicker than at time of war, usually in the form of weapons or weapon defences, but easily converted to more productive technologies in times of peace. A good example of this is Hitlers V2 rocket - while origionally designed as a weapon to defeat Britian,
the plans were captured by the Americans after the war and were used to build our first space rockets. NASA still uses the V2 rocket design to this day.