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mattmaroon
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How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival t...
It’s really not. It just is short hand for a government deciding that something really important is worth throwing a lot of resources at. I’ve heard it used to describe plenty of things western governments do too.
stupidhooper
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You think the headline isn’t a violent superlative?
jandrewrogers
32 days ago
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No, it isn’t. The media uses that term to describe any big strategic R&D project. Anyone that reads English language media would know this.
mattmaroon
31 days ago
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That’s not how it’s used, no. It’s also not a superlative, it’s a metaphor. Superlative would be something like “biggest” or “best”.
xwindowsorg
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Why not Moonshot projects? like Google X.
mattmaroon
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Also good.
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