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- If for no other reason that’s why we need to invest in science: in NASA, in NSF, in NOAA, and all the other agencies that explore the world around us. It’s for our own good. And it always pays off.
Innovation is not for everybody's own good. Things go obsolete due to innovation. For some companies, keeping things exactly as they are is critical to their succes.
This is a beautiful example of "preadaptation"; a trait (feathers) with a function (body heat regulation) evolving into another function (flight).
I wonder how this would look if corrected for the size of a country, or for the number of scientific publications per country. Apart from that, Nobel prizes are often given for research conducted/completed 10+ years earlier, this may distort the graph a bit.
Directly correlating economic prosperity and number of winners might be a bit inaccurate, this graph primarily shows US capacity to attract top researchers.