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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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