/sci/ - Science & Math

How come scientists are always making outlandish pie-in-the-sky promises of great things in the future if they're given funding and then never delivering on their promises?
Are scientists just a bunch of greedy charlatanous thieving liars and con artists?

just give nasa another trillion dollars, jetpacks in two weeks

more retarded pie in the sky from the soience community, you'd have to be extremely low IQ and gullible to believe it after over half a century of this kind of vomit

soience is always promising pie in the sky as an excuse for demanding gibes
and soience never delivers on it's ridiculous promises
they've been at it like this for well over half a century

>>16135205
if they were worth 0.01% of what they claim they are then we would be living in paradise and there would've been colonies on mars and the moon ages ago

>>16135419
>in the future muh soience is going to make muh comic book plot devices real!!!

>>16114493
this is an example of the kind of propaganda people of that age were subjected to. look familiar?

>>15976111

life in 1950s for the average person
>wake up drive to work at office/worksite
>drive home, eat, go to sleep

life in 2020s for the average person
>wake up drive to work at office/worksite
>drive home, eat, go to sleep

>>15845063
>70s sci-fi tier expectations

>>15707968
>We are already living a scifi world from the 1950s,
no we aren't

>>15672581

>durrrr hurrrr, muh 1970s soience fiction scenario
how come nerds refuse to live in the real world?
do they need their escapist fantasy lives so they have something to concentrate on in order to help them ignore what worthless, unwanted losers they are in irl real life?

>sup /sci/ when will muh comic book soience fiction fantasy life come true?
low iq thread

>>15510094
the soience fiction fantasies you learned about from tv and movies will never come true

>>15475351

>>15456224
Because the techno-optimists have a better track record, right?