***Do we no longer have ANY native born Americans in the fields of science?***
Nope. It was easier to leave high school and go directly into the automotive sector, making 40 smackers an hour for nearly 5 minutes worth of work an hour, with as much overtime as you could eat.
And now, it’s easier to collect unemployment and bitch about how the government is not doing enough for the common man. My wife’s stepfather is retired UAW (GM) and he has had some indication that the UAW leadership is about to pull the plug on their retirement. They’ve already lost medical and dental. Now, they’re really going to get it out of their monthly benefits.
He was a driver and made half again as much as I do.
Really cool, but we won’t see it for 20 years in the marketplace, if ever.
That’s what happens to these cool discoveries......we never actually get to reap the benefits (well, very, very rarely....).
For example, 15 years ago a family was discovered with a special kind of plaque-killing gene. They could eat anything and have a heart as healthy as a horse. That was supposed to come out as medicine in about 2000. The rights have been transferred to a new company now, so who knows how many decades before any drugs arise from it.
Millions will die in the meantime.
That’s what happens with virtually every one of these types of scientific discoveries....basically NOTHING.