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I agree, but.................

10 years ago. Rating: 4
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....the more we learn, even if it was unintended, benefits other research and more learning

....if we didn't, we wouldn't know the difference of an atom to a neutrino (e.g.)

10 years ago. Rating: 4
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I agree.  If you don't have any idea what you are doing, why should the government pay for it?  Oh, I answered my own question....

 

10 years ago. Rating: 3
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A lot of answers were learned from mistakes. Though not government funded,  Ivory soap was an accident, a mistake......

10 years ago. Rating: 2
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When Rolex released the first link iteration of what we now call the Root Beer GMT in 1970 life was simple. The Boeing 747 was democratizing air travel push-button phones were popping up in suburban homes across America disco music link was being blasted in cars that were way link too optimistically designed especially for an impending gas crisis and people wore bell-bottoms and said groovy a lot.

1 year ago. Rating: 0
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