This is kinda cool, but it’s a waste of money.
If they wanted to study the “other side of the dividing line between reality and alternative reality”, they could simply examine the State Department.
A wise old engineer from Project Safeguard once told me, “Simulation is like masturbation; the more you do it, the more you think it’s the real thing.”
This is also true with respect to the global warming crowd and their intellectual self-abuse.
Or the Senate would make an excellent "ant farm."