On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:37:38 +0100, you wrote: >Route around here http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/ and get the facts. Jed >unlike CF, keeping the lights on is not politics or science fiction. > >Honest to God, stop trying to turn science into politics. It's objective, >always has been, always will be.
--- Science and politics have always been and will always be inextricably linked. Clean science _is_ objective, but there's no such thing as 'clean politics' because politics more often than not gets in the way of the search for truth when the politicians who are called upon to get funding for, say, the SCSC try to figure out, "What's in it for me?" and demur if there's no immediate benefit. After all, why were Columbus's voyages funded? For the esthetic excitement of finding a new world? Hardly. A shorter route to the spice islands and the profit to be exacted from that route was the goal, and that justified the risk of the loss of capital. --- >You can't make a phenomenon happen by popular vote, going on a march, >praying or endorsement by pop idol. It just isn't like that. --- Wrong. Take a look at Ghandi and what he forced the UK to do without his use of physical force. --- -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
