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Jay Forestor, a non government researcher, invented computer memory. 6000 patents with a budget of ~ $20B per year isnt really that many. There are startup companies today barely spending millions of dollars per year on research with hundreds of patents. And you can see from this...

Bell labs, a private sector company, invented the transistor.

Please give examples. It didn't cost $176B to invent the car, computer, laser, cure for Polio, etc..., etc... Why isn't China spending more money on space to grow their economy if it has such an advantage.

NASA spends about $19B per year on space. I know people will reply that's not a lot. But, China gets by only spending ~$1.3B per year on space. How can a country whose economy might soon pass ours in size get by with less than 1/10 the space spending? That's because, besides satellites...

6 Billion a year is a lot for basic research. The sun shot initiative to bring solar to less than $1 per watt only received ~$120million in money. So, you could fund about 60 private sector initiatives per year to really advance technology for the price of simply using 40 or 50 year old...

THe computer, memory, rockets, satellites, computer software etc were invented well before the shuttle. The only thing the space programs and many others did when you get down to it was reconfigure existing technologies that came from the private sector. How many other technologies were...

The space shuttle program cost over $176billion. There is no way the relatively minor tech innovations from the shuttle made up for this cost. People say this so we are ok with dumping insane amounts of money into our "black hole" space programs. How much did it cost Steve Jobs and friends...

Finally!!!!!! The wait is over!!!! The best pure Sci-fi action movie of all time has sequels made. The question I have is : What took so long????

The part on the budget is way too vague. I expected much more from R. Paul. He should have said he will balance the budget in x number of years. Saying he will veto spending that unbalances the budget implies he will only veto additional spending not spending already in place that has given...

Good sense of humor. THere is no way NATO will turn on the rebels before they are in power. NATO has said they want Khadafy out of power and they will stick to that. The rebels could use this to their advantage by forcing NATO's hand by letting Khadafy grab the oil.

If the rebels were smart, they would stop fighting and pull back and let Khadafy's forces retake the oil facilities. I guarantee you if NATO sees that Khadafy has the oil, they will intervene more aggressively, including sending in ground troops. The fact that these rebels are fighing and...

I'll have to go with 60%. There is a 36% chance that both systems will win for the individual trade as well as a 16% chance that both will lose. Where it gets tricky is the 48% chance that the systems will split. I think you have to take this as half a win and half a loss. So 36% +24% = 60%...

You really need to brush up on your Chernobyl facts. Hopefully the below link will help. A few key points are that up to 1million excess deaths over time are blamed on it, that Ukraine is still spending 5% or more of it's gov'y budget on it to this day, and Belarus was spending 6% of gov't...

Here is a good example of how cost overruns for these projects bleed off money that would be more practically spent in basic research. In the link below, the Sunshot initiative has received $112.5Million in funding...

The following link states that medicare had a surplus of ~$344B as of last year. Even if the article got it backwards and medicare had a debt of ~344B that debt is still only ~2% of the total debt...

It always amazes me that no one ever wants to discuss what is the source of the ~$15T in debt when confronted with the fact that Soc Sec and medicare have run a surplus and are not responsible for a penny of the existing debt.

A tax is collected for social security and medicare. Virtually all of the debt is due to excessive military spending, over compensation of federal employees ( federal employees make more than twice as much in salary and benefits as private sector employees), and bailouts of not just the finance...

Heh. Sarcastic post. I called it Godzilla due to the mutant nature, not becuase I was implying it was large and fire breathing. I wonder if/when Japan will announce that more radiation has been released than Chernobyl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XTcmxiANE I'm not into fear mongering. But, if the situation in Japan becomes so bad that parts of the island have to be evacuated, then that might impact the "global economy".

mcgene - here is a link to an example that creates a dll using visual c++. http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3056 Here is an example showing how to link a visual c++ created dll to tradestation...