Science policy Memes

Nuclear research funding in a nutshell. Government happily plays with weapons development while tossing occasional funding scraps to clean energy, which is basically drowning at this point. Meanwhile, fundamental physics research sits forgotten at the bottom of the ocean like a skeleton in a lawn chair. Typical. Been running the same particle accelerator since 1987 because "budget constraints," but somehow there's always money for a new warhead design. Just another day in the glamorous world of science funding.

Executive orders can't override the laws of physics, no matter how confidently you hold up that folder. Plasma—the fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe—just got ghosted harder than a grad student's funding application. Next week: gravity becomes optional on Tuesdays, and entropy is now illegal because "things getting messy is very bad for America."