The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Without that "a" it's a very silly line.
Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must've been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren't blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they're using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that's better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.
That's exactly what I was wondering. Simple objective, very difficult problem, maybe have to invent new algorithms. Kind of like this:
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Take that, already meager science budget! They will definitely be used to make society better.
Thank God we are cutting out this wasteful science. It will pay for half of an F-35. We're buying an extra F-35, of course, so it's a net loss, but our budget is unlimited for the military.
I'm thinking the outcome of this may be even more sinister.
I know there is already plenty of corporate hands in science, doing what they can to fund research they want and making it more difficult for potentially damning results to come out.
Fun wild experiments won't go away, they'll still get funded, but only at the mercy of the corporation that bankrolls their study.
Studying fly development has led to cancer treatments targeting the sonic hedgehog pathway.
It's terrifying how easy it is to manipulate a population that's so biscously anti intellectual.
This is the dunning Kruger effect in real life. They're too stupid to understand science so they assume science doesn't make any sense.
I'm sure they would consider it a waste to "measure bubbles in antarctic sea ice" because they don't understand that's what climate models are based on and vindicated by. And even if they did understand it theyd still be against it.
It's tough because obviously as communists you have to try to maintain a belief everybody is deserving of basic dignity and respect but then you see somebody yell "don't you fucking tell me what to do" as they climb over the "do not enter, high voltage" sign of a substation.
It's a lot harder to maintain the belief that any loss of life is a tragedy when you have a guy in a klan robe saying it's their constitutional right to to wrap their lips around the exhaust pipe of a diesel truck specifically modified to cause as many emissions as humanly possible.
Well, that was something that benefitted women, so it's clearly not efficient for any of the grey, white men in this committee
Science inherently involves the reproduction of work that’s already been done. That’s how the process ensures reproducibility. Talking about the efficiency of science makes very little sense because the savings bought by science are privatized, viewed like externalities.
Hey E-L-O-N , y'know what else the government spends an exorbitant amount of money on? Go on, take a guess.
I never knew pregnancy tests had frogs in them. The sticks seem so small.
Those are usually the scary ones to piss on, unless it's a tree frog in which case you have to factor in the dexterity.
Here's the tweet in question: https://xcancel.com/DOGE/status/1858540521096089876#m
Anyone know what studies it's referring to?
It's like the two dumbest kids in your middle school were the only ones that ran for school elections and now they spout inane shit you have to ignore, except they control nukes.
Nah, there was another contender, but they were a fuckin' nerd with big, scary words and headachy sentences and got bullied out of the race.
(The nerd is a general analogy to reasonable people, not any specific person or group)
The settlers deserve the ocean of shit they're about to spend the next four years swimming through
