Life on other planets - consequences

Micky_T · Sunday at 9:34 AM

KaiserEFC said:
How would literally the biggest thing that has ever happened in our entire reality benefit humanity?

What has a 1995 European Cup Winner Cup got to do with this debate?

Micky_T · Sunday at 9:36 AM

chrismpw said:
I very much did, but you don't recognise the values I wrote about as improvements to the human condition. Perhaps you were after something more concrete?

Yes, definitely looking for something more concrete. While there is poverty, famine and suffering in the world there is absolutely zero benefit to anyone in spending millions of dollars on finding out there might be some micro organisms on a planet 700 trillion miles away.

chrismpw · Sunday at 11:51 AM

Micky_T said:
Yes, definitely looking for something more concrete. While there is poverty, famine and suffering in the world there is absolutely zero benefit to anyone in spending millions of dollars on finding out there might be some micro organisms on a planet 700 trillion miles away.

Well i agree there. But why don't we look at the greater waste of money that a very few billionaires hoard away tax free, that is only used to collect more personal wealth. Let's exclusively attack those blerts rather than the relatively tiny amount spent on scientific endeavour. I read once that around 80% of the UK gdp is from our science research background, which gets done thing like only 5% of the gdp.