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Sunday June 17, 2012 · 3:38 PM PDT

2012/06/17 · 15:38

One of the great lies of the latter part of the 20th century is that government doesn't work.

Of course it does. The United States Government, beginning with its own invention, has always supported innovation and growth, and our founding fathers, including the one who may have been most critical to our independence - that would be Benjamin Franklin - were actively supportive of scientific inquiry.

It is not an accident that the British scientist - who had never set foot on this continent - James Smithson, bequeathed his vast wealth to the United States Government to create “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”

For most of our history, we have honored this bequest. This is the nation after all that developed most of the tools for mast communication, that founded and funded NASA - sending robots to all of the planets, and men to the moon, that invented the technology that provided the first novel source of primary energy to have been discovered since the invention of fire, nuclear energy, the country that extended the periodic table to places no one imagined it could go: I could go on and on.

I don't have much time today, but this was on my mind as I considered some work on high temperature thermal barriers.

Consider this work: Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coating for Advanced Propulsion Engine Systems

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