Not compared to ULA, NASA and other of the entrenched space agencies with tens of billions in funding and decades of experience. Spacex only got their so big after the success with the falcon 9. Before that, they were a tiny company, not the giant you see today.
RNA vaccines were being developed by a tiny team of researchers for decades before covid bought them into the limelight and Pfizer stepped in helped to mass produce the vaccines.
It is you who have no idea what you're talking about. Pfizer didn't do shit to develop RNA vaccines, they just stepped in to help biontech mass produce it, because biontech was a tiny little company. ASML isn't small but they did start developing EUV back in 1999, long before EUV was even needed, back when they were a lot smaller and when they still had a very lucrative DUV business. Spacex was tiny and everyone was expecting them to fail back when they were developing the falcon 9.
Well, humanoid robotic aren't exactly fully developed yet. When the tech matures enough for me to buy one to do the house chores, you can bet that BD is going to be heavily involved. Again, the entire point is that there doesn't need to be a valid market or near term market for them to develop projects. With that mindset, ASML wouldn't have started development of EUV until 2015, when transitor size was finally getting small enough to actually need EUV. This mindset is exactly the kind that fucks over chinese researchers. There's zero foresight here. I'll watch as critical technology after technology fails to receive any funding or development right until it goes mainstream and China scrambles to catch up as always.
One example is phage therapy. It's basically rendered useless since WWII because antibiotics are way better. But now that antibiotic resistant bacteria or superbugs are becoming a major issue, various western companies are starting to pick up the technology for use. It's still a niche use, since superbugs hasn't completely taken over, but as the problem gets worse and worse, phage therapy becomes more and more useful until the companies that specialize in it become worth their weight in gold, oh and they get to save their healthcare system of the world. Might not happen this decade, but will happen eventually. Phage therapy isn't expensive or a hard field to develop, it was developed in the 1940s and little progress has been made since then, as the world more or less dropped it. A small team/company with little funding can do wonders here with advances with modern techniques used in gene sequencing.
But nope, China isn't doing much in that area, and probably won't do much until their healthcare system is overloaded with superbugs. Again, the analogy here is that China just focuses on a mature field, in response to superbugs, they will go develop new antibiotics, which does help but will just push the problem back another handful of years. They can't completely flip the table and completely change the game.
How is bringing up valid points and a critical flaw in China's research strategy trolling? This is the kind of victim mindset and refusal to acknowledge flaws that still holding China back.
Even better to start early. Also not an excuse. I would like to again bring up the phage therapy example, because I work in an healthcare setting and antibiotic resistant bacteria are already a massive issue that's killing patients, extending hospital stays and costs, and is getting worse and worse every year. A fast spreading bacteria that completely resistant to all antibiotics will basically fuck the healthcare system of any country even worse than covid did, so it's a big deal. A number of western companies have been looking into phage therapy in the past few years.
This is 1940s technology here, you don't need billions and a level 4 biosecurity lab to work with phages, with the lack of development since WWII, even a small team with even smaller funding can make great strides. So why the lack of development in China? Despite antibiotic resistant bacteria already being a major issue? Do they need it to become mainstream? For western companies to make it a multi-billion dollar industry with good profit margins before they jump into the field? Or are they going to wait for antibiotic resistant bacteria to basically fuck their healthcare system to the ground before doing anything?
