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| Topic | Federal science agencies to actually either stay flat or boost for 2017 funds. |
| COVxy 05/02/17 7:45:24 AM #13: | Darkman124 posted... well, more accurately, no short-term profit motive. I guess it depends on how you're conceptualizing science, as an enterprise or as a discrete set of units called experiments. I was think like the latter, meaning the only experiments with a profit motive are the last in the string that develop the application. The reason I stated it like this is because the labs that do the first set of experiments are most often an entirely different group than those who do the applied work. Meaning that funding the first basic steps is not only indirect in terms of the particular experiment, but also the people. But we're in complete agreement, really. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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