Very well said. True words of wisdom and I couldn't agree more.
Sincerely, Larry Atkins IMCA # 1941 Ebay alienrockfarm -----Original Message----- From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com> To: Jeff Kuyken <i...@meteorites.com.au>; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 10:24 am Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Human Presence in the Solar System The nature of this list means that I am certainly preaching to the converted but I'll have my say anyway. Research and discovery for it's own sake is uniquely human. It is true that it costs a lot of money but we all know it's very little in the grand scheme. As a gross oversimplification of things, mathematicians find out how numbers play, physicists work out a practical application for the maths, engineers find something useful to do with the maths and EVENTUALLY, through the sheer endeavour of it all and the processes we go through, the whole of humanity benefits. It's a similar story is for all sciences. We shouldn't necessarily be doing things with a view to long term benefit. We should do it because we are human. The long term benefits will come by virtue of us having achieved the remarkable. Rob McC ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
