[6stringmerc]

As a former proposal specialist (B2B, B2G, non DoD) I looked into the Genesis Mission procurement site and process.

Unless someone can correct me, the total amount of grant monies is $280,000,000 or so.

It became obvious that it’s not worth my time to engage in the “mission” as they call it, even if I could benefit some worthwhile causes.

That’s a pittance and pretty insulting to the purported benefit of funding scientific endeavors. I’m not even attempting to be political here. $280 Million versus $XX Billion for warfighting is a seriously gross misallocation of public monies, IMHO.

Total lackluster reporting on the scale and scope of the actual numbers, but not surprising.

[orochimaaru]

This is a really weird comparison. The Chan Zuckerberg foundation is nowhere involved with any war. All they’re doing is making money available for research. In which universe is $280m not enough?

[lenerdenator]

When the people running it have a net worth of over $150 billion.

[dgellow]

It’s not liquid

[lenerdenator]

It can be made liquid. And in Zuck's case, it really, really should. It's not good to have publicly-traded companies where one person has total voting control over shares.

[dgellow]

I would support that, for sure

[philipwhiuk]

It's a weird world where $280M is not considered a lot of money.

[davrosthedalek]

The grant size for phase 1 is 750k / 9 month. That is actually quite substantial.

[Despite that, I generally think more money should go to science, all around. But I have COI here.]