somebody wrote:
>>> 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

	Well, yes. I do have trouble seeing humanity spending $100 trillion per 
year on medical research, in today's Dollars. I may even be opposed to 
it, because I'm sure it'll imply a lot of other things being  neglected. 
In case you missed it, my original question was with relation to today's 
dollar and today's resources.

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