The National Science Foundation has, and it spent $500,000 of taxpayer money studying research involving a shrimp on a treadmill. (ABC) The National Science Foundation has its headquarters in Arlington, Va., just across the river from Washington, D.C., a building it pays $19 million a year to rent. But now that the 20-year lease is nearly up, it has decided that it is time to move[...] Full article at abcnews.go.com Okay, I hear what he's saying, but ya know what? I *want* a robot that can fold laundry, and one that will clean my house, and one that will do my dishes and clean my cat boxes and groom my dogs and dust, and all that stuff, and I want them to be cheap enough that even a student with a family can afford one ('cause, really, who needs one more?), and the research has to be done to get there. Instead of sayin', "What research shouldn't we fund?" I'd like the question to be, "What can we streamline elsewhere