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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Fantasy: "We will now fire a magic plastic-removal sciencel ray at the  ocean and clean the biosphere in an afternoon at the cost of 50billion total

Reality: Some nerds built a new sort of filter, and managed to filter a cup of water with it in 1 hour.  Please gib trillion dollar grant so we can develop a vaporware scaleout that gets terminated next time there's a change in government.
gpt
Honestly I’d love to see their grant proposals because I feel like given success at larger scale trials this would be a perfect project to fund under the NPS