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Pure development. So yeah, there's some handwaving there.

Let's say Galileo had had to climb a rickety ladder to the top of a tower at significant risk of falling and breaking his legs. Would that in any way have altered the social utility of his end product?

re: "every serious player in the stock market also has a telescope," see my comments on the Chicago fiber installation elsewhere in this thread.




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