[overshard]

I always find it amusing how little we know about most of our planet. Then I get sad at the vast amount of scientists losing their jobs or having to work for large-company-for-profit since they can't get enough funding to research what they want.

Maybe we need to start getting scientists to use Kickstarter? "For $400,000 I can make some serious headway into rogue wave research and will publish all of my data in real time!" I'd toss a couple hundred at projects like this.

On a side note we need a website and very simple API for scientists to publish research in real time... with a not-horrible interface like most science websites have.

[mattsf]

This exists. Petridish.org lets people help fund projects that wouldn't otherwise get off the ground, Kickstarter style

[overshard]

Indeed, this does cover the first part, they need to work on getting their name out there cause I've never seen this website before... Now for the 2nd part!

[joedevon]

Awesome idea!! I wish this comment was an actual item in the top news of HN.