somebody wrote:
>> One of the more significant benefits of manned exploration of space is a
>> better understanding of muscle atrophy - which has had real-world
>> practical application in disease research.
> 
> Sure, because there are not aldready tens of thousands of easily accessible
> bedridden patients in hospitals already to conduct the research on.

	While I won't jump in and say the research was valuable (I really don't 
know), your argument is fallacious.

	When you have a patient lying in a bed here on Earth, there are a 
number of factors that we can't control. If you want to understand 
muscle atrophy, you won't know how it depends on variables W, X, Y and 
Z, because we can't eliminate those variables. We can just guess that 
perhaps it depends on them.

	Going up in space eliminated some of them, and provided a better 
understanding. It's not at all implausible that that knowledge may 
benefit those who are at 9.81g.

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