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Originally Posted by Scucca  I certainly still see private-public alliances as the nature of the beast. I also expect waste and profiteering. However, those spin-offs are vital!
I believe thats an urban legend. We have a comedy programme called IQ that dismissed it reasonably recently |
Could be, but we really did have very expensive hammers and coffee pots in the military. In my first civilian job at a nuclear test reactor, I overheard engineers admitting that they had tested some things far beyond the needed data collection, and proof, but had some money left, so they were going to spend it on more testing.....