http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2019-01-07:noticeId=253725:objectType=noteNew note by steveWhile I would certainly welcome more and larger sources of funding for basic research, the role of government will always be large. Governments, for instance in the U.S., represent the interests and resources of a constituency. More and more, science needs large and long-term projects. Even fields once considered small, single-investigator driven areas are beginning to conglomerate into projects where dozens of investigators are needed to make the project work. Such projects require years or more to plan, years or more to build, and years or more to operate. Take the experiment I work on - the Large Hadron Collider. Planned inthe 80s, R&D in the 90s, built in the 00s, operated from the 2010s-2030s. No single entity made that happen - it was a partnership of government and industry and academia. We need all of these to be healthy.253725http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-07T14:38:15+00:002019-01-07T14:38:15+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/3stevePhysicist, Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, Professor of Physics at Queen's University, dark matter hunter, neutrino watcher, writer, runner, programmer, blogger, sometimes a drummer.steveStephen SekulaPhysicist, Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, Professor of Physics at Queen's University, dark matter hunter, neutrino watcher, writer, runner, programmer, blogger, sometimes a drummer.Sudbury, ON, Canadahomepagehttps://steve.cooleysekula.nettruetag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2019-01-07:objectType=thread:nonce=78a6387203531d01