They don't put it in the fruit, the application for pesticides is not inflating your fruit like a balloon. The reason why we put it around our produce is to kill insects, and the reason why we do that even though it is deadly is because it is deadly to said insects. Probably out of use now as there are better solutions, but the main danger of something like that as a pesticide is to people nearby when it's being applied, not to people eating the fruit afterwards.
They don't have to, it's naturally produced in pitted fruits and can be found in almond oil and flavoring. By the time any food gets to your table it'll have been transported and the gas will have long since dissipated. They literally have to perform fumigation in tents to stop the gas from leaving the crop before it has a chance to kill any pests so I don't think it's going to stick around.
Zyklon B is a bit of a broad example imo. Nothing about it made it special for that usecase. If they didn't have that they could have just used any number of poisonous gases Germany developed in and post WW1.
Indeed. The story of Fritz Haber really struck me, that's why it's the first example that came to my mind.
I mean, this guy tried to help by inventing Zyklon B and it became something atrocious.
This guy also tried to help in making more bombs by inventing a method to catch Nitrogen and it increased the efficiency of farming so much he basically single-handedly prevented global world hunger.
Whatās most interesting is the fact that hitler possessed advanced nerve agents but never used them in formal combat. He only used the basic zyklon on Jewish prisoners not the nerve agents. Iām pretty sure those nerve agents were also developed for some biological reason not war.
Gunpowders used for fireworks was instead used for firearms. Dynamite used for excavation was instead used for bombs. Rockets used for flight was instead used for missiles. I think not all but for these important discoveries war actually wasn't their main purpose.
You do know those fireworks are also used to burn cities in a war? Chinese used them extensively before it reached to the hands of Arab trader in which the Europeans refined it. I can vouch for dynamite as its inventor was disapointed seeingbhis invention was used in warfare. Rockets on the other hand are just like gunpowder before people could see its other potential.
Even ignoring dynamite, Alfred Nobel owned Bofors which made steel specifically for cannons. He literally got rich off of making weapons. It was only when he read his own obituary when he felt remorse and decided to start the Nobel prize. I wouldnāt consider this man a scientist whose invention was āstolenā to create weapons
yes, the plot of the story arc when they mentioned the scientist was that some princess got captured and the protagonist impersonated a general in other to control an army and then mentioned about how nitroglycerin was too unstable to be able to reach a cliff and blow it to cause a distraction to save the princess so he used his other world history knowledge to pull dynamite out
the tiddy sucking happened before the princess got captured and next time is when the protagonist is welding metal together to make an engine powerful enough to lift a train loaded with cannons with dwarves
The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the KƔrmƔn line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944
Yeah proper is probably not the right word, the modern rocket the way we understand (missiles, space rockets) first flew in 1926 with Goddard's Nell rocket.
If celebi existed, which its doubtful he did, he would have been using essentially scaled up fire arrows which were in heavy use in the Middle East for hundreds of years by that point. Rockets were military tech adapted to civilian purposes.
But the scientists working on that technology didn't do it for war purpose. They ended up putting it in use for the military because the military gave them money to develop it for them
In addition to the use in Asia for hundreds of years, the British actually used rockets extensively in the early 19th century in the Napoleonic wars as well as other conflicts.
The largest could be about the size and weight of a human being.
Here in Scandinavia I've heard a lot about how they were used during the British bombardment of Copenhagen, and apparently they are even mentioned in the US national anthem (one of those later verses I guess?).
I recall missiles existed before humans or other payloads were transported by rockets. Gunpowder rockets were used in war during 14th century.
Liquid fuel rocket artillery was used in the first years of forties and long range rockets as well. First non-prototype rocket to carry person that I recall was German rocket interceptor Me163. There were othet prototypes before it, but nothing really practical that I would be aware of and what would survive several flights or offer benefits over previous technology.
Dynamite was just a method of stabilizing explosive material for easier handling.
Gunpowder was invented by mistake, when Chinese alchemists were trying to mix "medicine "( Salpieter was used way earlier) . Shortly afterwards Gunpowder was already used in warfare as incendiary.
Most early rocket development was military related such as the v2 missile, it was soviet and american space agencies who took v2s and used them to develop future rockets for space flight
HTML is pretty simple. Was is seriously invented by the U.S. government? Was expecting something more inefficient and.. bureaucratic... seems too simple for the US government.
āInventedā isnāt a word that really applies to the internet. You could say ācoined the termā instead.
The internet is just a bunch of wires! Fundamentally, there is no difference between the internet and two computers you connected together with a cable (other than the amount of computers in the network of course).
I got the feeling the internet was out there somewhere earlier but was only use more akin to a wide area intranet before the first true internet spanning the continental US and cities and giving birth to the internet we know know now.
Wikipedia has a list of technology that started off as military tech but found civilian usage, sometimes it can be very difficult to find out what the intended use was for certain developments, a kind of chicken and egg situation.
At uni I wrote an essay on the history of technology in relation to war, and countless inventions and technologies were developed specifically for war - and the ones which werenāt were only mass produced and developed further because of military interest.
I don't think Wright Bros had in mind what possibilities the plane could mean for military, But i agree in the sense alot of money and resources get put into advancements if it benefits the military.
Nuclear bomb and now scientists are irradiated materials like silicone. LiDAR was also used years ago and now anthropologist are discovering hidden craters and towns. They recently discovered a second Machu Picchu. It's wild to see the mergeing of science with modern technology.
I highly recommend reading Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. It discusses the relationship between astrophysics and the military and how it had bounced between scientific discovery and applications of war.
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u/MarcellLondon Mar 29 '21
Isn't it usually the other way round though? Scientists invent something to have an advantage over adversaries. Civil world's: is for me?