• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    And he’s significantly responsible for our modern world with its ability to sustain billions more humans at a higher quality of life than any king had in the 1600’s.

    That would be “fossil fuels”, Alex. I have no idea what you’re getting at. Unless you’re one of those who thinks the space race is responsible for creating computers or something along those lines, in which case don’t even bother responding, my eyes can only spin back in my head once.

    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      They mean the codification of Newtonian Gravity in a mathematical theory, which like, for all the terrible shit he did, that’s the one good thing that he definitely did do

      Which the latter applied engineering from that did create essential technology for keeping people alive and with that, increase population size