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To: Stephen O who wrote (6311)	4/10/2005 12:26:53 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

World War I served a useful purpose. It made Germany extremely poor, and guaranteed that its desperate people would go to any lengths to get out of that poverty, even to the point of following a dictator into another no-guts-no-glory war. Astounding numbers of people were killed but more from disease than bullets. Out of the Second World War came Coleman stoves, electronic stored program computers, the Jitterbug, jet airplanes, systems analysis, ICBM's, Bailey Bridges, pseudo random noise, radar, wireline guided missiles, the aqualung, acoustic magnetic tape, miniature telvision cameras, TV and radio guided missiles, machine-optical shape recognition, penicillin, the anti-tank shaped charged, stealth radar-avoidance technology, the Very Light, programmable homing torpedoes, heat and serve meals, the k-ration, advanced thematic aerial stereoscopic photography analysis, operations research, ... I would not say offhand that war is a net benefit to mankind but it is impressive how many scientific advances are made out of necessity that aid progress in many ways. EC<:-}