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Re:Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics by londons_explore on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:24AM (#19817753)
"It's expensive and we couldn't find investors" really means "It's a lot of work, and nobody thinks it'll be worth it".

We might be able to anything, but the capitalist system stops us doing things that don't look profitable.

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Re:Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics by naasking on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:28AM (#19818185)
Profitability at time X is a pretty decent heuristic for whether something is worth doing at time X.
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Re:Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics by danharaj on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:12AM (#19818577)
How do you know that? Unknown unknowns.
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Re:Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics by naasking on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:39AM (#19819365)
Unknown unknowns are more likely to cause problems and delay completion, not accelerate development.
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