"Mueen Nawaz" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message
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> somebody wrote:

> >> I can see you did not bother answering how much you'd like to see
> >> medical research get before you're willing to be OK with spending $10
> >> billion for the LHC.

> > That's easy: $100,000 billion.

> > And that's a very low figure when you think about it. Even if it only
saves
> > 10 lives (gross, gross underestimate), I'm saying that the value of one
> > human's life to me is about the same as satisfying the curiousity of
about
> > 1000 or so physicists. If you were faced with such a dilemma and were
given
> > a two buttons, which one would *you* push?

> So put another way, your answer is essentially "Never".

Not quite what I said. That's a pessimist admission on your part that we
believe our lives to be less worthy than what amounts to entertainment, with
which I incidentally agree.

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