It sounds fantastic and grand and all that. But the fact is science is hard. And the grand problems that are presented as justifiable goals and reason to increase spending are too few to satisfy the tens of millions of citizens who may be capable of contributing. All the research projects he presented: genome research, military research, astronomy, all that could probably be covered by the 100 Nobel Lauriats still living in the USA, and 400 selected research assistants. The remaining 250 million people will have to be content reading about it in Popular Science magazine. Why do you think movies like Titanic, and Mummy Returns are such huge successes? People like me, millions of us, *know* that we will never get a chance to be a part of all that science stuff.
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Pure BS