re: The history lesson Americans refuse to accept and keep repeating

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In fact, your statement is a shocking admittance of ideology. You are essentially saying that government management of the economy is 100 times more effective than free enterprise

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Not what I said, but am illustrating what a terrible example the wright bros would be to use for "free market solutions". Research/Discovery is not "management of the economy", and I never made that implication.

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your ratio (1:1000) is grossly inaccurate

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Not really. Just look at the number of patents owned by universities.

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lasers, FM radio, magnetic resonance imaging, global positioning systems, bar codes, the algorithm for Google, the fetal monitor, the nicotine patch, antibiotics, the Richter Scale, Buckyballs and nanotechnology, the discovery of the insulin gene, the origin of computers, of bioengineering through the discovery of recombinant DNA, transistors, improved weather forecasting, cures for childhood leukemia, the pap smear, scientific agriculture

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Shite, fricking Gatorade was only made possible due to research at a University (funded by government grants)

Microsoft/Bill Gates only exist because of prior research done at Universities

I think if you all dug down a little deeper, you would realize my point in largely correct. It is one of the larger unknowns in american society.