The funding came from VC firms that all have some sort of a science-focused component.
Then there's something called controversial science - that's often the sort of science that science fiction confronts".
In this regard, LOT theorists typically view themselves as engaged in some sort of a proto-science, or at least in some empirical research program continuous with scientific psychology.
What sort of "science" can "political science" aspire to be?
" 'If I were you, I'd put an insurance value of $15 million on that.' I said, 'Oh, Alberto, you can't do that.' But to them, it would become sort of a self-fulfilling science to say everything is worth what you want it to be".
It's a very different sort of science, an elaborate enterprise that involves complicated analyses of patterns of genes or other components of cells.
The film is a sort of political science fiction, set in an unspecified future that's seemingly identical to the time of its making, in which — ten years after the "Social Democratic War of Liberation," a peaceful socialist revolution — the fractures beneath the surface of the new policies come to the fore and New York women plot a revolution within the revolution.
Over the decades he's turned speech-making into not so much an art as a sort of Newtonian science.
The stories here are a sort of science fiction — I'm not a reader of science fiction, I'm not very interested in it — but they're usually based in a real world, and then there's one element that takes them into another realm and makes them not real.
It's easy to scapegoat Kapoor as keeping the substance away from other artists, but really, his studio is acting as a sort of secondary science lab, where Vantablack's artistic potential can be explored by a team with the resources to do so properly.
