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There's nothing in your comment that logically follows that a war is required to give engineering grants. Solution: Give engineering departments money without a
by ClassyJacket 8y ago
There's nothing in your comment that logically follows that a war is required to give engineering grants. Solution: Give engineering departments money without a war. You would, in fact, have far more money to give if it wasn't spent on war.
- almost_usual 8y agoHistory and the technology we all use today disagrees with you. NASA (really NACA) wouldn’t exist today if the Soviets hadn’t launched Sputnik. Competition and fear spur quite a bit of innovation and public reason for funding research projects. Convincing large amounts of people to give you money without reason doesn’t usually work. War is easy to sell, people can conceptualize the risk easily. I’d argue you’d see more funding and research for preventing climate change if it were as easy to conceptualize risk wise for the general public.