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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I dont want to spend more money than I have to either, but science is kinda important for advances at this point. so much of the future will depend on understanding and usiong technology that I feel this is the worst possible place to cut funding further. The sciences are the future of this country....and indeed this species. If the University system ciuld do this on its own....I would be thrilled, but thats unlikely.
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Is it? Corporations fund university studies and programs all the time.
The X prizes are interesting ways of getting corporations in the game of discovering and pushing science from driverless vehicles to private space flight. Why does the government have to be involved? Innovation can come just from two guys on sand dunes (Wright Brothers) or two guys in a garage (Hewlett/Packard, Jobs/Wozniak, Page/Brin.)
While items like particle accelerators and radio telescopes have traditionally been funded by governments, there is no reason that private corporations and individuals cannot do this without any aid or direction from governments.
Again, I state that let the private sector do the things that private citizens want to do, and let the government do the things that governments should be doing.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 09-26-2007 at 06:23 PM..
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