they won't listen unless you can actually do what you are wanting funding for. Why do they think a 15 year old could buld a wmd, when you tell them you are trying to make ftl (faster than light) travel possable and are taking precautions and asking questions like "where can I get heat shilding like on the space shuttle"? who knows how hot a space ship going at warp 2+ could be. every one knows that if a warp ship were built everyone including our enemies would want one, so what is wrong with asking in on a TOP SECRET goverment project to build a light bending metal? It makes it look like the goverment wants us to be atacked. And all that because there isn't a device that can AcTuAlLy SLOW DOWN time, when that is why I partally want the $$.
You're kidding? With a delivery like that, they didn't give you a grant? Bunch of bureaucratic, jackass suits! They don't know what brilliance they are passing by. You should ask Richard Branson!
Well, just set up a website and ask for donations. You're bound to attract enough idiots, um... 'investors' to have it built in no time.