Alain wrote:
> scott nous illumina en ce 2008-09-30 05:09 -->
>>> HEP operates in a domain not presently or foreseeably applicable to
>>> everyday
>>> life.
>> 
>> Heh, didn't someone famously say exactly the same when the transistor
>> was invented?
>
> Not just for the transistor! When the Wright brothers made their first
> flight or the first photographs where made, the first computer
> constructed, the first vacuum tubes tested, peoples said something like:
> "It's all good and nice, but it will never get everydays use" Just
> remember that the very first steam engines where made during the Plato
> era...

Don't forget lightbulbs. I'm sure Edison was told they had no practical
purpose.

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