“to fund a whole decade of new bullshit research that has produced not a single thing for humanity in the last 50 years.”
GPS satellites apparently use the BS tech, but it was not useful until TomTom created portable GPS.
There may be some small incremental spinoffs that I’m not aware of, but certainly nothing really big. I’m not a physicist but I have spent a lot of time trying to read and understand some of these guys like Hawking and I finally determined that its mostly BS.