| Posted: 17 December 2017 at 9:19am | IP Logged | 5
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Department of Defense... oh, sure. Hide that program.
Instead of, say, funding it through NASA... maybe implying that we were more interested in knowledge than aggression.
The DoD does not strike me as a source that gives a damn about learning; only about knowing what's coming so that we can destroy it first. While in a couple specialized situations (e.g., an approaching asteroid) that might be worthwhile, it would be much better not only to learn what we're looking at, but to develop technology that would let us better learn what we're looking at.
Or to put it pedantically... it would be nice to have long range sensors, as on the Enterprise, more than photon torpedoes or phasers.
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