Comment by ekianjo
6 days ago
> with a pretty great return in research, engineering and education to boot.
If a company could spend 24B in research they would probably produce a lot more things than NASA
6 days ago
> with a pretty great return in research, engineering and education to boot.
If a company could spend 24B in research they would probably produce a lot more things than NASA
Absolutely! Think of the many new ways to display advertising that are being neglected while we foolishly launch people and things into space.
Well, NASA itself is a good counterexample here:
NASA could do a lot more good science, if they didn't (have to) launch primates into space.
The track record of NASA sending stuff to space is pretty bleak
Google's R&D budget is like $60B. Make of that what you will.
Of course, that's partially a tax optimisation.