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These are general purpose US funding of research which is done under the "Military spending" banner for various reasons. I understand how people outside the US
by momokoko 6y ago
These are general purpose US funding of research which is done under the "Military spending" banner for various reasons.
I understand how people outside the US might not understand this, but it always surprises me complaints about "military spending" from educated Americans that don't understand these are actually enormous investments by the US government into general applied science.
The Army did not spend millions of dollars on a giant walking robot. The US government, by way of military spending, invested in research of the things required to build such a machine.
- hiddencost 6y agoThis is garbage nonsense. You could just as easily manage this funding process somewhere else with different priorities. We've been moving university research funding out of the NSF towards defense budgets quite aggressively over the last two decades, and it's quite palpable how shifting control of this funding from pure science oversight to military oversight has reshaped priorities.
- momokoko 6y agohttps://www.csis.org/analysis/wtos-first-ruling-national-security-what-does-it-mean-united-states https://www.csis.org/analysis/wtos-first-ruling-national-sec...