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Yes, ultimaltely the same people whose decisions led to you being able to have an internet to connect to and whine on are the same ones who took a few dollars from your paycheck and are using them to explore Mars.

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ultimately the same people as in literally not the same people? the one with a vision to improve and unleash a global network from its inception at DARPA or CERN vs those who made the choice to work on sending pointless rovers in outer space for the past 20+ years?

You do know the vision of CERN is particle physics, don't you?

...so you are praising CERN for accidentally inventing WWW, and at the same time blaming NASA for not (yet) producing a tangible consumer technology, from a Martian probe that literally just landed?

you seem to be tacitly implying that better outcomes will come from those government subsidized endeavors rather than the revolution happening in the same field from the private sector. if that's your claim it's a ludicrous one. major impetus were provided by government research -- most of which knew where to stop once visionary entrepreneurs picked up the ball and took it to the next level.

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