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I always view NASA and military spending (well, the Department of Defense) as the forefront of American R&D. Isn't most of our advanced technologies a result of these programs?
I mean, isn't this how the Internet came to be? (As an example.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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