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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by akvadrako on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:25PM (#14206149)
I agree with the sentiment and some aspects of science, like medical trials, may scale fairly well.

However the most significant scientific discoveries seem to come from the top of the pile. You need to be in the right place and time with the right background to make the right connections that reveal a previously hidden truth.

Science is about seeing something that's staring you in the face but nobody has even noticed before. That generally can't be farmed out.

So it's a long road from poverty to understanding to discovering something really new.

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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by lern_too_spel on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:02PM (#14206966)
Even finding many major breakthroughs like the blue LED is ultimately just probability. The more people who are able to find them, the more breakthroughs you will find.
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