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Military-sponsored research is one advantage that results from these large-scale advanced weapon design projects.

Directly funding research is far more efficient than letting a huge percentage of the money we spend go to lining the pockets of MIC billionaires.

If you can find these mythical entities that are willing to fund research that has basically zero ROI (other than the NSF), you would be a hero in academia.

Otherwise, the MIC is one of the only good funding sources available.

> MIC billionaires

Who would be? I'm not aware of any. In fact, I got out of the industry partly because the money is total shit compared to the commercial world.

sure but the same machine that propels these advancements is also non-complacent to the tax-payer

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