-Snip losa good stuff- Is it immoral for someone pursue a course of > work for which there is no financial motivation whatsoever? I submit > that not only is it moral but it is crucial to the progress of society. > -Snip more good stuff-
> I seriously doubt privatized research would have the patience of decades > to wait for technologies like fusion to yield (it hasn't), to say > nothing of the pursuit of more esoteric research, like the Higgs boson, > or quantum gravity. There is a 27 kilometer long circle underground > Geneva Switzerland fitted with the worlds most powerful multi-Tesla > liquid helium cooled superconducting electromagnets. The Pierre Auger > cosmic ray observatory in Argentina--the size of Rhode Island, dozens of > other observatories worldwide, in orbit and speeding out of the solar > system, all of them the province of astronomers and astrophysicists, yet > you don't see any corporations rush in even so much as to get their > brand names on them. > > > Justin Bravo Justin ! Well Put ! Ray. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka !' (I found it !) but " That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
