I'm all for more money for research, we spend too much on the military as it is. Learning new things no matter how useless the knowledge seems right now might h

I'm all for more money for research, we spend too much on the military as it is. Learning new things no matter how useless the knowledge seems right now might have untold applications in the future. That being said, throwing money at science and expecting predictable and measurable results on any sort of definable timetable isn't realistic. Even if the human genome project had been completed in 1993 that's not a promise that every sort of discovery or applications based on that knowledge would have been discovered between 1993 and 2008. And invariably there's things we've learned between 2008 and 2010 that is a dependency for some of the work utilizing the human genome. So sure, somehow if we knew everything in 1993 that we did in 2003 we'd be years ahead. And if we knew everything we did in 1993 in 1893 woah, just think of that. And so on and so on. More funding can help in the quest to learn about the universe. But you can't just buy knowledge (doubly so for a specific technology or somesuch) by the year, decade, or century. Money doesn't have that power, and that's not how science works.