God’s Broken Machine

I have been of the mind that sciences' purpose are to enhance and extend human lives. To me, this proves to be a waste of resources. This falls short of the basic goals of discovery.

Anything is better than spending $3T invading the wrong country while destroying our economic prosperity in the process. We could afford a lot of particle accelerators, fusion machines, clean fuel experiments and just about anything else you can think of for that money.

Discovering a cost-effective way to create fusion energy would be greater benefit, both short and long term. Clean energy would could end our "need" to pollute the earth. It would also provide energy to feed massive particle colliders. The achievement of "cold" fusion, or even research to rule it out as a possibility, thus focusing our efforts, is of concrete benefit. Abstract science -- science for the sake of science -- IS useful and important, but it should not be so expensive as to preclude the practice of concrete scientific pursuits.

Social Science is what should be stepped up. Not experiments that cost too much to tell delusional scientists that they will never achieve the level of the creator. Never the less keep wasting funds that could help create H on Earth (which would actually be nearer to achieving the level). I predict the collider self destructs on the next firing, beyond repair. What a waste. The higgs boson does exist ok, and spirit energy is even finer as are its receptors in the brain, find them instead.

A much needed sign that we need to move science back up in our priorities.

this is good news... the more researchers the better for science.

this is good news... the more researchers the better for science.

Though perhaps we should have cleared out the low-range of possibilities first, before clearing out the high-range possibilities that required a very expensive machine.