• @Dadifer
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    185 hours ago

    It’s obvious how to make it better: spend as much money on scientific progress as we do on figuring out how to blow brown people up.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be opposed to more funding but there would still have to be some way to decide who to fund and making a good case that one’s research is worthwhile is always going to take a long time.

      • @Dadifer
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        14 hours ago

        No, it only takes a long time because there’s so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.

        • @halcyoncmdr
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          13 hours ago

          There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.

          No, they aren’t taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.

          • @[email protected]
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            145 minutes ago

            Yeah because they’re so big. This guy is not asking for a grant for 2000ppl, multi-year project around nuclear fusion, it’s just him and a couple students mucking around in a petri dish

      • @Dadifer
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        04 hours ago

        I sure wouldn’t call it scientific progress, if that’s what you’re implying.