Re: OT: Even the greens don't like the warmingsts!

JeffM wrote:
You have re-made the point Dr. Venter was making:
The country is going to hell
because we have given up on basic research
and will only patronize KNOWN quantities.

Jim Thompson wrote:
The US subsidizes ethanol production,
yet our approach to ethanol production will _never_ be viable.

Duh. You have restated my premises.
What Venter was actually talking about
was splicing extremophile genes into other more mundane critters.
Thus: Biotech innovation.

Jim Thompson wrote:
Well DUH yourself.
When there are economic opportunities there WILL BE research.

AGAIN with the circular argument.

What you want to do is tax the paisanos

The tax dollars are already being collected;
I'm saying *Stop pissing it away on corporate greed*.

to support some hare-brain at Podunk U.

As opposed to corporate subsidies (e.g. agri-business)?
SURE! [1]

It ain't going to happen.

It's ALREADY happened; there is a precident.
It was going at quite a clip while you were growing up
and were establishing a working life.

The point is that too many old fat farts
are no longer supporting fundamental scientific research[1]
so that new technologies might be derived from them
--stuff that will benefit their grandchildren.

Now *I* get to take a dig: Selfish, short-sighted Right-Wingers!
..
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[1] ...and you never know *exactly* where it will lead.
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