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There's adventure you fund yourself, and then there's adventure that taxpayers fund to the tune of several trillion dollars.
by jiggawatts 4y ago
There's adventure you fund yourself, and then there's adventure that taxpayers fund to the tune of several trillion dollars.
- Chathamization 4y agoYeah, if a huge chunk of DARPA's budget was spent sending people to climb mountains "Because it's there," people wouldn't be happy. The NASA budget for aeronautics is 1/8th the budget devoted to sending people into space "because it's there." Yet the aeronautics research is much more likely to have an actual positive impact on people's lives.