On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:36:11 -0600, somebody wrote:

> doesn't anybody else find it ridiculous that almost 10 billion dollars
> is being spent on an experiment that will have absolutely zero practical
> benefit to mankind

Prove it will have no practical benefit to mankind.

Very often, when it comes to experiments like this, the development of 
technology to do the experiments has application outside of the field 
it's being used in.  Going to the moon had no practical benefit to 
mankind, except of course that it enabled us to develop technology that's 
now being used to do medical research that couldn't be done in Earth's 
gravity.....

Jim

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