• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No, it only takes a long time because there’s so little to go around. Do you think defense funding takes months and years to award grants? No.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.

      No, they aren’t taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah because they’re so big. This guy is not asking for a grant for 2000ppl, multi-year project around nuclear fusion, it’s just him and a couple students mucking around in a petri dish