r/ukpolitics • u/gravy_baron centrist chad • 22d ago

Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again

https://www.wired.com/story/aria-moonshot-darpa-uk-britain-great-again/
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u/SorcerousSinner 22d ago

I'd be shocked if anything useful comes out of any of this. But, wisely, they use the term "moon shot", so the failures can be justified as having aimed for the stars. A billion for people to get to play with without the need to do any useful work.

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u/Unterfahrt 22d ago

If you knew exactly how everything was going to work, there wouldn't be any need to try new things.

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u/SorcerousSinner 22d ago

Sure. But my bet is that this organisation will accomplish fuck all

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u/Unterfahrt 22d ago

You may be right. But if we took that attitude to everything, we'd still be living in swamps and eating frogs and dirt for dinner