Re: [OT] Monkey & Type-writers

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Pedro de Oliveira wrote:

>Doogie
>
>I know what you said was meant in humor but I thought I would clear one
>thing up.
>
>Actually to get funding you first need a research proposal. In other
>words, someone came up with the idea, then put it to the funding body
>who thought it was a good idea and funded it.
>
>
As you said, totally meant in humour... it is Friday after all..... ;)

>I've nothing to do with the monkey experiment but being a researcher it
>gets on my tits when people think researchers get funding and then
>allocate it to stupid projects. The point is: the funding body thought
>it was a good idea (personally I don't) and then funded it and not the
>other way round.
>
>
Yep

>Just my 2p.
>Pedro (Researching ways of making vehicles safer for child pedestrians)
>
>
I just wish we could move over to a fully computer driven system, like
demo'd on various tv programmes various times over various years, which
would prevent pretty much *all* accidents involving cars.

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Doogie