Re:What about close air support? (Score 2)

we spend millions on military because it is the most socially meaningful research that there is! Measure the fall of communism or the end of Hitler's terror against some tree-huggin scientist developing a new hairspray that doesn't need to be tested on cute bunnies. A**holes like Saddam are out there - we spend millions on military to keep them out of our universities so scientists can have the leisure time to develop socially meaningful things like nutra sweet