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Commentary on the World

Damn Patent Laws...

Here I am, minding my own business, trying to build a nuclear bomb, and then I find out that it’s already been patented.

(though, where it gets neat is that the Manhattan Project was all about security, secrecy, and making sure that nothing ever leaked… and then they had a locked room in the patent office filled with instructions about all the neat stuff in the bomb, written so any engineer could understand it).