4 ms·And it costed us 100x more than if we just put the money into science directly! YAY!by guappa 3y agoAnd it costed us 100x more than if we just put the money into science directly! YAY!ethbr1 3y ago:) Politics decides funding allocation in a democracy. And it's a lot easier to justify military spending than it is research. Same reason NASA is the way it is, but we still have a space program.euroderf 3y agosee: Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility & Desirability of Peace.