re: #90 Lazarus
Govenrment has no business funding science. Volcano monitoring is obviously a huge value, not only to airplane pilots, which people would gladly pay businesses good money to provide. People shouldn’t be forced by government to pay for it; let the free market make it happen.
I guess the government shouldn’t fund a Navy either. If we want our shipping protected, the companies should hire freebooters from Port Royal, Jamaica. Avast, ye hearties!