I will leave Musk’s graft-laden NASA contracts for another day, as at the moment — the more immediate issue is Quantum research. China is eclipsing the US on research into building so-called quantum computers… ones that might be able, in a matter of minutes — to “pick” every electronic lock, break in — and steal. . . everything. Trump is apparently too senile to understand this threat. Or worse, he is accepting back door bribes to allow it — for privateers.
Here’s the broader weekend story from the NYT — do go read it all:
…The turmoil inside scientific research has extended beyond the Pentagon. The Energy Department, a key hub of nuclear and quantum research, has lost more than 1,000 scientists and technical staff. The National Science Foundation, for decades a primary backer of long-term, foundational research, has withheld more than $1 billion in funding. And at the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder of medical research, officials delayed or canceled more than 2,000 grants to biomedical researchers focused on topics such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and other diseases.
Under Mr. Trump, the federal government is still spending roughly as much on research — about $200 billion this year — as the administrations that came before. Scientists across the country are still receiving grants; universities are still being funded.
But beneath the surface, the system of federally funded science that helped make the United States a global superpower is under intense strain from Trump policies, jeopardizing the nation’s advantages in defense, medicine and technology, a New York Times examination has found….
Do go vote. Vote to preserve America’s lead in the hard sciences. And to allow brilliant immigrants to come here — and thrive — and thus advance our scientific programs by orders of magnitude. Onward.
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