Oh yeah. No one appreciates blue sky research. We don’t know where the question will take us, which is why governments fund the research. They can take on the 0.1% chance something useful is created 20 years later.
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lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There’s a good NPR podcast in the same vein as this: www.npr.org/…/episode-779-shrimp-fight-club
It’s about congressman talking about government waste and targeting the sciences. It’s like, you don’t get the “cool” applications without the “weird” research. I’m doing a horrible job describing it, but I thought it was a good listen.
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
hobovision@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Planet Money has some really good episodes. Unfortunately, a lot of filler as well.