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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Material science has just been crushing it for a good long minute now.

[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That's why we name our ages after the materials within. Material science is the foundation for almost all other physical sciences.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

How do you account for Space age and Information age?

[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

the information age is easy: the silicon age!

not sure about the space age...maybe titanium age? that's about the time we figured out how to machine titanium on large scales, and for highly specialized, extreme applications (talking about the SR-71 here, mostly). could also call it the alloy age, since a number of important alloys were discovered around that time

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