Oh yeah, and that's not restricted to NASA. The US government runs on pork.
I think your suggestion has a lot of merit, with the one reservation that it seems likely, as it now is in much medical research, that only research deemed likely to be immediately commercially profitable would get funded.
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Date: 2004-10-03 07:00 pm (UTC)I think your suggestion has a lot of merit, with the one reservation that it seems likely, as it now is in much medical research, that only research deemed likely to be immediately commercially profitable would get funded.