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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by BenAufero on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:11PM (#28739193)
I think the complaint is not that the government funds research for defense, it's that it could be funding energy, medical, etc research.

I honestly don't know if I fully agree with his complaint, because I'm fairly sure the government does fund a lot of other research that isn't defense focused (see a lot of universities).

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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by Ericson2314 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:23PM (#28739310)
It funds many sorts of research but much less development. Research ideas do not develop themselves and so the story of modern academia is zillions of abandoned ideas.
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