How BIG is Science?
An interesting question that had never really crossed my mind, but Anna Zakrisson of The Imaginarium posted this on FB today. Some pretty amazing statistics, but if you stop and compare this to how much the USA alone spend on its military, it becomes painfully obvious that this is still a very small number. Of course, there is a lot of scientific R&D going on within the military that eventually finds its way into the public domain, too, and there’s no way to tell if this $$ is included in the infographic here.
It’s big………but it could be so much bigger, and we would all benefit.
#science #researchanddevelopment
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