People always be jokin' about the Internet gettin' invented by Al Gore but the actual way it was invented is pretty dang interesting. It was sort of like an Emergency Broadcast System that actually got used for something.
It seems like just about everything useful got invented because of something horrible degenerate. The cotton gin was invented because white peoples' arms were getting getting sore from hitting slaves with sticks, the car was invented because white peoples' arms were getting sore from hitting horses with golf clubs, and the light bulb was invented because white people got tired of the smell of burning Indigenous Tribes as a light source. The nuclear bomb was invented because a mad scientist thought that smashing two atoms together would cause an unstoppable chain reaction that would destroy the universe. It didn't, and the one million dollars he demanded remained infuriatingly distant from his grasp until his death just two minutes ago.
To this day, over 80% of the people whose job it is to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear" cannot do so.
