Ok fair enough but how does something like that get through the competitive process then? On the surface it sounds frivolous which would mean it wouldn’t be competitive?
Ok fair enough but how does something like that get through the competitive process then? On the surface it sounds frivolous which would mean it wouldn’t be competitive?
silence7@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Because the competitive process is about credibly promising to produce new knowledge, not about direct immediate application. And when you do that, something really useful is created every so often. You cant do the kind of directed study that produces immediate application without the basic knowledge of how things work. So we have had a system where the federal government funds basic knowledge creation and private enterprise does the directed work for profit when it becomes clear that it’s plausible.