The "who should decide" question i find the most interesting. It's one of the rare setups where i lack thé arrogance to think my opinion would be relevant. (Th

The "who should decide" question i find the most interesting. It's one of the rare setups where i lack thé arrogance to think my opinion would be relevant. (That said, if the goal was to burn the funds with minimal progress I couldn't imagine a better tool than the LHC BWANDO corporation.) If the tax payer is to fund the effort perhaps their opinion should have some non-zero influence on the choice? Im not entirely against theoretical efforts (which is like my opinion) but to alienate clearly productive effort under some "let industries do it" banner seems several bridges to far. Maybe the other way around: let industries decide. would be less sensless. useful things like wind solar wave tidal energy, clean water, agriculture etc all directly compete for the funds. Wait, i know. Lets spend an insane amount of money to research what we should be funding. Im sure we can figure out howmany apples an orange is worth.