[2muchcoffeeman]

So after years without results you'll continue propping up the one long shot you picked?

You need basic research to move science and technology forward. And you need to accept that the majority of the research will have no direct result for a long time or ever.

The history of flight spans back 2000 years.

Semi conductors date back to the late 1800s. And don’t forget that to even get to the beginnings of understanding semi conductors, a bunch of basic stuff needed to be figured out first.

Darwin took 2 decades collecting evidence and writing On the Origin Of Species.

[boomboomsubban]

>The history of flight spans back 2000 years

And at some point we stopped trying to make fake birds wings to flap our way to flight, as our understanding grew to the point where we knew it was incredibly unlikely to work.

Yes, basic research is necessary and developments sometimes take a long time. That doesn't mean you should keep following a route that repeatedly leads to a dead end. And every hypothesis isn't equally deserving of funding.