My only reference to something like this is Kerbal Space Program, which uses science as a pseudo-currency to unlock new items etc. I figured it was just a video

My only reference to something like this is Kerbal Space Program, which uses science as a pseudo-currency to unlock new items etc. I figured it was just a video game thing and did not reflect real life at all. This is strange to think about. Are these valuations public? Can science be traded between government agencies or other countries? Does science that gets made become devalued over time? Is there like venture capital where VCs deploy science instead of dollars? Has the value stabilized yet such that we can predict how much science we'd get with an arbitrary amount of money or vice versa? Genuinely interested in learning more since it feels like if we can properly tie "science" to $, we can predict the future by looking at budgets, no?