[ExI] Poised for defeat?

[Dave Sill]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 9:23 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Not having anything to show for it is the nature of R&D.


No. Research is iffy, but development is generally expected to yield a
product.

If the  government isn't willing to risk their money on it, who would?


Industry, of course.

R&D is  actually one of the most benign aspects of
> military-industrial-media
> complex.


I don't think anyone's complaining about research. Even development, in the
worst case, like the F-22, is just a big waste of money. There are far
bigger problems with the MIC than that.


> Most of the complex is a voracious monster that needs to kept
> caged and sedated only to be released in extremis.
>

Which, unfortunately, we're not doing.

-Dave
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