When the Iranians targeted the Weizmann Institute early Sunday morning, they destroyed labs that will have to be rebuilt from scratch and set back research by many years

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  • BrikoXOPM
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    543 days ago

    “It felt like we were in a war zone,” he recalls. “You can’t step on the floor. Everything is full of broken glass. It was unbelievable. In the vicinity of my lab, three floors had collapsed. There was no trace of the lab. It’s incomprehensible.”

    That’s a daily life for Palestinians if they get to live at all.

    • @BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world
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      303 days ago

      Him lab was destroyed.

      In Palestine, their work, their grocery stores, their hospitals, their schools, and their homes are all like this now.

  • @hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
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    223 days ago

    Oh boo hoo, does the bully not like it when their victim punches back?

    Fuck right off with your poor me bullshit, Israel. FAFO.

  • @rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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    113 days ago

     the institute contributes to:

    • Development of complex military systems such as artificial intelligence for data analysis and combat guidance.

    • Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies and autonomous systems.

    • Advanced electronic tracking, jamming tools, and alternative GPS navigation systems.

    • Encryption for military codes and secure communication in hostile environments.

    • Research related to nuclear energy applications and battlefield medical technology.

  • 小莱卡
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    73 days ago

    It’s objectively good for humanity that whatever these freaks were developing there got buried.