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More specifically it dates from that Cold War period where submarine related activity was disguised as "Ocean Research" and slathered with pictures of dolphins.

FLIP was all about those undersea sound waves, thermal gradients and sloping ocean bottoms.

Less underseas cities, more total atomic warfare.



Things funding for atomic warfare has given us:

   - Nuclear power
   - Access to Earth orbit
   - GPS
   - Mapping of the world's oceans
   - Miniaturized circuits
   - The Internet
   - Interstate road systems
   - Hubble Space Telescope
   - Earth observation satellites
For such a horrible technology, humanity seems to have made out okay.


The flipside of course being, that in a rather not uncommon set of circumstances we get:

- Destruction of the current human civilization

Although I agree that it is nice that we scrapped some benefits out of it along the way




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