[The Louiswu]

You can!

Go hat-in-hand to the GOVERNMENT and I am sure they will be happy to give you lots of my money to toss down a dry well someone with resources and brains has already decided will not return a profit.

My bet is the GOVERNMENT will be happy to give you lots of my cash BECAUSE it is not profitable and they will be able to extole the virtues of spending money for pure research that has no hope of any sort of reasonable return on that money spent.

[stuartcr]

Right.