On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:07:37 -0600, 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.

Tell me, do you go to the movies?  You know, all that money that's dumped 
into entertainment might be better spent on medical research.  Stop 
spending your money at the movies, and start donating it all to medical 
research.

What else do you do for fun?  Well, let's see, you use Microsoft Outlook 
Express, so presumably you use Windows.  You bought a computer - you use 
it for posting to online forums.  You pay Shaw Cable, what, $22/month 
maybe for 'net connectivity?  Or do you bundle and get basic cable 
(another $32.95/month), or add phone service for another $20.95/month?

That's an awful lot of money you spend on something as frivolous as 
entertainment.  Seems to me that money would be better spent by donating 
it (let's assume you bundle the first two lowest-cost services and spend 
only about $55 before taxes per month) - that's $660/year you could be 
donating to cancer research.  Better yet, why don't you go into the field 
so you can actually do some of the research as well as donating your 
frivolously spent money to that research?

Do you eat out much, go for drives around the rural parts of or locale.

After all, if the end-all be-all of living on this planet is to prolong 
our lives and "better mankind", then doing things that don't work towards 
those goals are ALL frivolous, not just HEP experiments.

Jim

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