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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Space Station & APS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.184043.2297@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Jul30.214339.38024@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <25114@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:40:43 GMT
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- In article <25114@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
- >In article <1992Jul30.214339.38024@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jmp1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JEFFREY MICHAEL PARSONS) writes...
- >>Can anyone confirm what Sen. Grahm (Texas) said on CBS This Morning (7/30/92)?
- >>I believe that he said that governmental funding of science research has gone
- >>from a former (stable) 5% of the budget to 1.8% (1.6% without the SSC) under
- >>the current Congress. He noted that this trend appears to be continuing. I
- >>would also add that it is my impression that a smaller percentage of federal
- >>science funding is going to physics. Does anyone have a source which confirms
- >>or refutes these facts? Dale, what does your crystal ball have to say? :-)
- >
- >This probably refers to the shift in a large number of research dollars into
- >the defense budget since the Reagan years. I doubt is real dollar total
- >expenditure for basic research has gone down. And the budget hasn't
- >grown *that* much.
-
- I agree that the budget has not grown enough to do this entirely
- (roughly $600 billion in 1980 to roughly $1.5 trillion today).
- But, it is difficult to determine the meaning of the numbers without
- the myraid assumptions that go into them. I'm sure Mr. Bumpers
- (a SSC opponent) has similarly shocking numbers that are probably
- similarly worthless in the way that they are always presented, without
- good context.
-
- >-Scott (not-the-Dale)
- dale bass (the-Dale-not-Bumpers)
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- C. R. Bass crb7q@virginia.edu
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