Jay Forestor, a non government researcher, invented computer memory. 6000 patents with a budget of ~ $20B per year isnt really that many....
Bell labs, a private sector company, invented the transistor.
Please give examples. It didn't cost $176B to invent the car, computer, laser, cure for Polio, etc..., etc... Why isn't China spending more...
NASA spends about $19B per year on space. I know people will reply that's not a lot. But, China gets by only spending ~$1.3B per year on space....
6 Billion a year is a lot for basic research. The sun shot initiative to bring solar to less than $1 per watt only received ~$120million in...
THe computer, memory, rockets, satellites, computer software etc were invented well before the shuttle. The only thing the space programs and...
The space shuttle program cost over $176billion. There is no way the relatively minor tech innovations from the shuttle made up for this cost....
Finally!!!!!! The wait is over!!!! The best pure Sci-fi action movie of all time has sequels made. The question I have is : What took so long????
The part on the budget is way too vague. I expected much more from R. Paul. He should have said he will balance the budget in x number of...
Good sense of humor. THere is no way NATO will turn on the rebels before they are in power. NATO has said they want Khadafy out of power and...
If the rebels were smart, they would stop fighting and pull back and let Khadafy's forces retake the oil facilities. I guarantee you if NATO sees...
I'll have to go with 60%. There is a 36% chance that both systems will win for the individual trade as well as a 16% chance that both will lose....
You really need to brush up on your Chernobyl facts. Hopefully the below link will help. A few key points are that up to 1million excess deaths...
Here is a good example of how cost overruns for these projects bleed off money that would be more practically spent in basic research. In the...
The following link states that medicare had a surplus of ~$344B as of last year. Even if the article got it backwards and medicare had a debt of...
It always amazes me that no one ever wants to discuss what is the source of the ~$15T in debt when confronted with the fact that Soc Sec and...
A tax is collected for social security and medicare. Virtually all of the debt is due to excessive military spending, over compensation of...
Heh. Sarcastic post. I called it Godzilla due to the mutant nature, not becuase I was implying it was large and fire breathing. I wonder...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XTcmxiANE I'm not into fear mongering. But, if the situation in Japan becomes so bad that parts of the island...
mcgene - here is a link to an example that creates a dll using visual c++. http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3056 Here is an example...
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