impact this, the way it works is not discovery is coming from people arber surely work in a laboratory and my goodness, i discovered the steam engines. it develops out of people looking current technology, practical people and seeing a need to adapt this to my needs and then they solve their problems on the spot. but apart of defense yesterday not long ago and said, how many great research breakthroughs came as a result of basic science, just starting from scratch in the laboratory? do that to 700 projects. the science comes from is applied science. so it turns out that there has been far more funding of science, the percentage of gdp by the air, research foundations, bequests, amateur science in the beach before we had income and estate taxes. governments have been far less generous towards the sciences than the voluntary sector of society was. this is exactly the opposite of what we would think. but so often we casually assume that things have to be the way they've always been. what i'm trying to do is to a bertrand russell recommended. once in a while you've got to hang a question m