Re:The End of Public Funded Research
by stygianguest on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:44PM
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I'm really dissapointed that the ministery of peace has always gotten more research money than the normal variety. It seems hard to defend especially since the cold war ended. Some people must be really eager to start a new cold war with China. Depressing.
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Re:The End of Public Funded Research
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:01PM
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The military funds a huge amount of basic research.
For example, a huge amount of computational E&M is funded by the military. Most of it is published in non-classified (though paywalled) journals and is directly useful to anyone building E&M communication or sensor devices. (I cite computational E&M specifically because I used to work in that field.)