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The struggle
(mander.xyz)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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There are literally decades-long proposals, initial R&D and prototyping for big defense contracts.
No, they aren't taking years to award a new contract for the paper provider, but they are for new weapons and vehicles.
Yeah because they're so big. This guy is not asking for a grant for 2000ppl, multi-year project around nuclear fusion, it's just him and a couple students mucking around in a petri dish