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Originally Posted by djgreedo
I realise it's difficult to see direct results of space exploration (and often science in general), but no bad can come from understanding our universe better, and most likely huge breakthroughs in science will come from the LHC and space exploration, and those breakthroughs have the potential to benefit humanity in ways we can't even dream of.
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As a scientist, I'm all too pleased about any money that the US can funnel toward basic research. Whatever keeps my constituency employed is good. Lol.
However, in this very long thread, many have missed the most important point concerning science education. The best and the brightest men and women on the planet are not necessarily doing scientific work. They are entering fields such as financial engineering, law, and business administration. The most dangerous invention of the 20th century was not the nuclear bomb. It was the derivative, and all the instruments that it entails: CDOs, CDS, SIVs, etc. If you want to know why there is not enough money to devote to space exploration, alternative energy, hunger, disease, global warming, etc., just take a good hard look at financial engineering and its monstrous creations. Because the average person or lawmaker has neither the math or scientific literacy to analyze a financial presentation, the crooks have gotten away with murder, plus billions of dollars of money.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker...&asset=&ccode=
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker...m,ms,c,bac,faz
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30059004/3...pbook-20070226
Recommended viewing- Capitalism: A Love Story, directed by Michael Moore. Greed is more powerful than any other motivation the human race may have. That is the most fundamental law one has to understand. More important than the Theory of Evolution or Relativity. Follow the money, and you'll realize where it is being stolen or squandered. The dirtiest 4-letter word is spelled B-A-N-K.