The lumbering dinosaur

From Gnomon Chronicles

Context: "Wonder who they stole that from ??????"

—Someone on the Internet

Sure, the Chinese steal technology. But they also pour an *enormous* amount of money into basic research.

Now that America is done funding research, we can expect the Chinese to outstrip us — in fact they've probably done so years ago, we just don't realize what lumbering dinosaurs we have become (too busy chanting "USA! USA!" and patting each other on the back).

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