>SNIP
>>The only big invention I can honestly say the military mind has brought us is the Internet - but then it's become the businesses' nightmare: there are no wires or pipes which they would own, where they could plug the meter and control the content. It's too anarchic and centerless. I figure they're still regretting it :).
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>Ok, I just couldn't let this one go. Here's a start:
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>Medevac helicopters, materials developed for stealth aircraft now used in hiking boots, the microwave oven was made with military technology, the humvee is now the hummer,

This last item is all the proof I need. Military technology may bleed into civilian use, but it may not be a good thing each time ;).

>ultrasound, Cat scan, lasers, nano technology, fiber optics, miniaturization, solid-state components, the internet, vaccines

Vaccines as an idea - didn't know that. What was dr Pasteur's rank?

Or did you mean inventing new vaccines? Which ones, who did the research?

(spoiler: if it was done by one army's scientists to use against a disease which is spread in another country - how was the vaccine used then?)

>- a lot is discovered and has its roots due to military necessity and research teams consisting of military and civilian scientists and engineers. Many research facilities (unknown to most) are partnered with the military. That continues today. The Army receives around 200 patents every year.

But then that research is paid from the taxes and should be public domain, right?