from the Future Communications Laboratory
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| The funding needed for this facility is not minimal. Startup costs alone are well into the tens of millions, and that would be only for the basic model. | To some, considering this kind of money for such a project seems so impossible, it borders on the ridiculous. But we really are only talking about the cost of a Hollywood movie, a professional athlete's salary, or a single attack submarine or stealth bomber. | The priorities of society are such that our best minds and efforts are lost to a philosophy that if it cannot produce financial gain, it is not worth doing--at the expense of the truth and our environment. |