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Babbage machine proposed as monument to failed science funding
Original: As soon as my # humanRights are restored, I will consider building the machine designed by Charles Babbage as a monument
A commenter says they will consider building Charles Babbage's designed calculating machine as a monument to failed science funding, but only once their human rights are restored. The remark ties a personal grievance about rights to a broader lament that visionary projects, like Babbage's never-completed engine, are abandoned when backing dries up. Babbage's nineteenth-century designs are famously unfulfilled engineering ambitions.
Why now: People are drawn to the wry framing of linking personal rights and historic science funding failures.
Evidence
- As soon as my # humanRights are restored, I will consider building the machine designed by Charles Babbage as a monument to failed # science funding. · adrian_fellhauer@sueden.social · 1
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