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underliptonyesterday at 10:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

Indirectly. Direct application of dynamite to the human body is considerably more fraught an event than direct application of penicillin. As the fundamental goal of technology is to extend the capability of the human body, it's natural to implicitly and primarily consider what that extended capability can do to another human body.

It's nice that we have tunnels through mountains and bedrock.