Re: Another Scientist Shortage?


rrc wrote:
> Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>
> > > walking with the closing of the supercollider project circa 1994.
> > > Afterwards, the IT bubble had absorbed the last of the scientists who
> > > wanted out before the 2000 Nasdaq collapse. Now, it's too much of a
> > > joke to even be considering shortage stories other than the typical
> > > media hand waving.
> >
> > what about the mars rover project, the hubble telescope, the nuclear
> > fusion reactor consortium etc?/ I also read of one MIT phd who came
> > out with something called hydroni or something,
>
> Let me rephrase, science will continue, however, the USA is no longer
> the place to make a career out of science.
>
it is a place to make a career out of science -but not the only one.
some extraordinarily talented people can get funding jobs, but not
everyone with an interest/aptitude can. You probably need to sell your
idea well in addition to coming up with a good one.

> Also, Goldin's NASA (Rover et al) is a management consulting "design a
> little, build a little, fly a little, and crash a little" joke next to
> the NASA of the 60s/70s with Gemini, Apollo, Viking, Pioneer, and
> Voyager. This is an agency with no future. Those ground breaking
> developments of the 60s/70s will never to be repeated. Now, folks in
> Kazakhstan are matching NASA.
>
The US is just a country of 250-300 million and when other countries
get their act together, you arre bound to see more competition than you
would like to.

> > a nano thing that manipulated hydrogen and produces cheap, unlimited electricity. And
> > don't forget nanotechnology -it will provide lots opf jobs in the future.
>
> Are you saying it's easier to perform hydrolysis, thus separating H2
> from water (or some other H-compound), and then reacting it with O2 to
> form water without a net loss of energy? Is that bio-catalysis on
> demand like some internet fad? Isn't it easier to simply convert coal

here is the link to whAt I am referring to.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/11/05/will_hydrinos_replace_oil_as_power_source.htm

The entire url is long, so make sure you don't split it into two.
It came in my local newspaper, sp that shows how ideas travel fast. In
addition to coming up with a novel idea, you alse need to keep
inventing so that people in other countries don't leave you behind.
There is no way you can either leguslate the flow of ideas or prevent
others overseas from extending an idea and thus denying you the
benefits of that idea.

> to petroleum via modified Fischer-Tropsch synthesis? A time tested
> process that's easier to scale and improve with today's existing
> technologies.
>
> And every physical sciences lab in the world is doing "nano". In fact,
> the only way physical scientists get funding is to put nano- in front
> of every proposal they submit.

yeah -buzzwords are a selling pt because the people who manage funding
are dumbasses not qualified to retain their jobs.

regards
-kamal

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