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Originally Posted by UtahBill  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..... |
It can become a waste worth paying. The alternative, with insufficient R&D and technical progress, just isn't then attractive enough. But can we assume sufficiently limited output?