Ben Reinhardt (https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt) , an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses

• Why DARPA has so many hits to its name

• Why NASA wasted the past two decades

• What needs to be subtracted from the US research ecosystem

• Sci-fi book recommendations

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