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I guess the people handing out the money are laymen unable to discern science that lies outside the mainstream from crack-pot theories. Governments probably wa
by jostmey 8y ago
I guess the people handing out the money are laymen unable to discern science that lies outside the mainstream from crack-pot theories.
Governments probably want to fund all kinds of weird research in fear of missing out on the next atom bomb. But there was a long and rich history of rigorous science leading up the the development of the atom bomb. I imagine the same is true about the development of ICBMs ect.
- ganzuul 8y agoICBMs emerged extremely fast after the V2. It has a lot more in common with this parapsychology research than with nuclear fission.
- wtallis 8y agoThe Trinity test was 2.5 years after the first man-made self sustaining nuclear reaction and 12 years after the idea of a nuclear chain reaction was first proposed. The R-7 ICBM first flew 13 years after the V2. I'd say nuclear fission developed a lot faster than ICBMs.
- ganzuul 8y agoI'd peg the beginning of the research that jostmey mentioned at the discovery of radioactivity. The science was already well-underway when research reactors were being built.
- mannykannot 8y agoRocketry was already well-underway when the V2 flew.
- wtallis 8y agoOk. In that case, it took 49 years from the discovery of radioactivity to the production of the atomic bomb. It took 60 years from the development of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation to the production of the ICBM. Nuclear science still advanced significantly faster than rocket science.
- microtherion 8y agoIn some ways, ICBMs are literally connected with parapsychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)