For example, Britain’s national mapping organisation’s brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It’s called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that’s because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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      Voyager 1 is the antithesis of planned obsolescence¹, with it long outlasting its mission

      ¹the real kind, no the meme kind liberals often say that things are the result of