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It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research.

I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.

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Same thing

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Warfare science is still science and often has the benefit of funding groups that develop civilian science as well. Civie science doesn’t pay as well as the brass do

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