Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, I do not think the government does anything for progress. > What you think is irrelevant. Read any history of technology and you will see that you are wrong. Your opinions cannot change facts or rewrite history books. I have given you many examples of major technologies that were discovered by or paid for by governments. You have not addressed a single one of these examples. You claim researchers outside the government have replicated. I asked for their names. You have not given a single one. You claimed that Fleischmann "sounds to me like an entrepreneur" and that he was "certainly not supported by the government." That is preposterous. He worked for the government his entire life, except at the end when he worked for IMRA, and that went badly. He was never anything like an entrepreneur. He expressed contempt for entrepreneurs and businessmen in general. You clearly know nothing about the history of technology or cold fusion, and nothing about Fleischmann or the other researchers. Before you spout off about a subject (any subject) I suggest you read books and learn something about it. > Organizations cannot make result but people can. > That is the most idiotic assertion I have heard in many years. Do you think individual people can build railroads, run corporations, eliminate smallpox or win World War II? On their own? Without an organization to back them up and coordinate their efforts? Most professors I know are so helpless, and so inept at anything outside their specialty, they cannot type a paper without organizational support. Without people like me, to be specific. They can barely order lunch. Without organizations human society and civilization would not exist. There would be no continuity, no support systems, and no accomplishment larger than a single person can handle in one lifetime. - Jed
