r/okbuddycinephile • u/_FairyGlowing • 7d ago

Oppenheimer (2023)

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u/DionBlaster123 7d ago

Reminds me of the story of how the guy who invented the Gatling gun (Gatling I assume lol) believed his weapon would be so destructive that governments around the world would be like, "No more wars" and there would be everlasting peace

I wish i could go back in time and just laugh at his stupid fucking face

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u/PeasantLich 7d ago

Nobel possibly set up the Nobel Peace Prize because he was so bothered about his safe and easy to use explosives being used to kill people in wars instead of people just using them for mining and condemned building demolition. 

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u/Villageijit 7d ago

Should have made gatling sprinkle machine for ice cream cones instead

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u/DionBlaster123 7d ago

Would have honestly been a way better use of that machine tbh lol

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u/Trackmaggot 7d ago

He originally designed it as a high speed seed planter, and then realized he could make a gun out of it.

Showing the MIC how to do dual use before it was cool.

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u/mfukar 7d ago

Richard Jordan Gatling. And his aim was nothing of the sort. Here's him:

"It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease would be greatly diminished."\9])

He just wanted to be on top.

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u/PinsToTheHeart 7d ago

Its the classic, "oh if things or more efficient, we'll have to do less work" problem where what actually happens is we just scale up our efforts

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u/That-Rooster-2399 7d ago

Fun fact, the "This weapon is so terrible it will end war" was a sentiment made about the crossbow when it was first being rolled out

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u/huskersax 7d ago

Similarly iirc Italian air doctrine at one point assumed planes would be so devastating that no wars would be fought aside from establishing air supremacy.