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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 February 2011 07:21:19AM *  44 points [-]

In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality.

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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

-- George Orwell, 1984

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 02 February 2011 11:03:39PM 3 points [-]

Well, I don't know. The sort of gun you had before modern precision machining, 4.2 would be good enough, maybe 4.3 at a pinch.

Comment author: CronoDAS 03 February 2011 07:25:10PM 2 points [-]

2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2).

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