NASA has developed all sorts of stuff over the decades:<p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies</a><p>Most of the modern technologies that we use in recent years has had initial funding from government:<p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State</a><p>* <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17987621" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17987621</a><p>This includes early bootstrapping of the Silicon Valley ecosystem:<p>* <a href="https://steveblank.com/secret-history/" rel="nofollow">https://steveblank.com/secret-history/</a>
Very interesting projects. Some youtubers have been recreating and iterating on the electroaerodynamic thrusters in the solid-state propulsion project:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftKjkZHirc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftKjkZHirc</a>
I really want to see Titan's lake before I die. It's the only stable, landable liquid in solar system (besides Earth), how it is not a priority?!
> <i>The US government</i> has funded a bunch of early stage technologies<p>Regarding title: FTFY<p>The US government is probably the most successful venture capitalist in history.<p>Scott Galloway defends this thesis admirably: <a href="https://www.profgalloway.com/welfare-queens/" rel="nofollow">https://www.profgalloway.com/welfare-queens/</a><p>I have a sneaking suspicion that the semiconductor industry as we know it would not exist without copious and frequent government funding.
Astopharmacology sounds so cool, especially the use of microorganisms to synthesize medicines. I wonder how those drugs will mutate as the organisms go through breeding cycles..