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How much money does actually go into this? I know it's an active research area, but I didn't get the idea this is some kind of "main" focus for humanity. For ex
by rowanG077 3y ago
How much money does actually go into this? I know it's an active research area, but I didn't get the idea this is some kind of "main" focus for humanity. For example a figure I could find is that US$24.5 billion is spend on cancer research (which frankly I find extraordinarily low). I couldn't find a figure online but I doubt it's even 10% of that.
To me it just sounds more like we are just playing around a little bit and not actually taking finding a room temperature super conductor seriously.
- distortionfield 3y agoIf that cancer figure is true, that’s depressingly low for something so devastatingly common and increasingly common.
- Ancalagon 3y agoActually a lot of strides have been made in cancer survivability rates from that funding - depending on type of cancer, many people can be essentially guaranteed survival these days when just decades ago e.g. prostate cancer was a death sentence.
- rowanG077 3y agoFor sure! That also not what I was implying. The US solo spends something like 770 billion per year just on the military. That means even the entire world together spends 3% of that on cancer research. You can't really tell me this is even remotely sane.