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  • lud@lemm.ee
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    A world with only “real” science and progress but without any entertainment would be quite boring.

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      And fiction has been key to inspiring the next generation of scientists/engineers. So many NASA people have claimed to be inspired by Star Trek just to pick one.

      • gentooer@programming.dev
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        Hey, but I managed to write software to calibrate µCT-scanners! That is clearly way more inspiring than all this fictional stuff. Right! Right. Right?