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RE: The way to go?
By djc208 on 4/14/2009 7:21:39 AM , Rating: 4
Right, because advanced laser research can't help anyone but the military. Or that useless GPS system the military put up and maintains, it's not like that benefits anyone. The DARPA robotics competitions must have been a huge waste of taxpayer dollars since no one outside the military would want anything to do with autonomous vehicles.

Our military spends a lot of money on a lot of things, not all of which make sense, but like NASA they also spend a lot of money working on devices that have a lot of practical applications. In fact I'd say they probably tie or even exceed NASA in the amount of public advancements that come from their research, if only because of the amount of money they spend on it.


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