<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 9:23 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Not having anything to show for it is the nature of R&D.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. Research is iffy, but development is generally expected to yield a product.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> If the government isn't willing to risk their money on it, who would?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Industry, of course. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> R&D is actually one of the most benign aspects of military-industrial-media <br>
complex.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Most of the complex is a voracious monster that needs to kept <br>
caged and sedated only to be released in extremis.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which, unfortunately, we're not doing.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>