Kickstarter.
People will pledge thousands, and I mean lit-er-ally THOUSANDS of dollars to such things as the production of gizmos, games, films, books, potato salad, etc. Things to entertain. You get my point.
But I wonder how much would be pledged to a Kickstarter fund to find a vaccine to cure some illness or disease? Of course, what would they offer in return? I guess they could give a micro photo of the bacteria, virus, parasite, whatever, or one of those stuffed microbes, or a free inoculation.
I honestly wonder what a more advanced alien race would think of us?
Maybe they would considered us a bacteria, virus or parasite, infecting everything we touch......
Yep *nodding with knit brow*
K, I'm done now.