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Some Thoughts on Warbirds

Some people are critical of my interested in warbirds, and other military subjects, such as tanks and other technology of war. I see their point, that it is sort of glorifying violence and death, but it's not really that simple.

I dislike conflict as much as anyone, but I also like cool technology, and some of the best tech we have came from the development of weapons. So I see this as a way to admire the machines without necessarily agreeing with their purpose.

And a lot of good has come from advances in military engineering. The most famous example is the way the Americans (and Russians to a lesser extent) used ex-Nazi rocket scientists to develop their space programs after the war. Without that, the US would never have to to the Moon as early as 1969.

So I don't apologise for my enthusiasm for these magnificent weapons of death and destruction. They are cool, and its just an unfortunate side-effect that their purpose involves death and suffering!



I usually write a blog post about once a week. The latest post can be viewed here: Manufactured Outrage: We might be beginning to win some battles, but the war is far from over. (posted 2024-12-17 at 19:19:15). I do podcasts too!. You can listen to my latest podcast, here: OJB's Podcast 2024-12-04 Avoid Microsoft: If you don't really like computers much you could make things a bit better for yourself..
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