The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

Tell that to the mathematicians who worked on solving
the Fermat problem; tell them their enthusiasm,
obsession, passion was funded by the government...and
that all the time and energy they spent on trying to
solve the damn thing was subsidized by Uncle Sam for
military purposes....

--- Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Supposing "institutional" stands for
> institutional-evolutionary economics 
> the  engine for progress in the sciences as
> mentioned above is national 
> desire to increase success in war-making which
> indeed may be a 
> cultural-national imperative.  Poklerisms abound. 
> 
> 



	
		
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