Comment by __loam
4 days ago
Go look at the amount of grants getting funded this year and tell me we aren't completely gutting the national research apparatus.
4 days ago
Go look at the amount of grants getting funded this year and tell me we aren't completely gutting the national research apparatus.
I just need to look locally and see we're in trouble. NIST, NCAR. Super Drought conditions forming in the West.
This isn't good.
But hurray Moon missions, I guess. Pity we're causing the entire World Economy to collapse with a unneeded war.
Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Well, when you zoom out a bit, it’s not a stretch to say that both Apollo and Vietnam shared the same goal of countering the USSR.
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Honestly, that coincidence was NOT lost on me.
Part of me finds it inappropriate to do the two things at once. Advancement in scientific knowledge being somewhat at odds with blowing up one of the oldest civilizations in the World.
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