I like this - the logic I am reading here on some posts would suggest that we not do any research at all!!! Why send subs down to the ocean depths to study fish we will never com into contact with? Why study medical science if we are all going to die anyway? What a way to send your country back to the dark ages.
To understand the heavens is to understand ourselves, and that is the whole purpose of life. Living without learning is like dying without being actually being dead. Many things are answered by sending probes to the farthest reaches of space that all help our understanding of our very own planet!!! I mean, it could be only a thousand years left of hydrogen powering our own sun. Might it be a good idea to find a way off this rock before that happens (If we don't anihilate ourselves first)? Isn't it a good idea to study even how life existed and came into being? That in itself leads to direct medical implications.
I could go on forever, but with that kind of attitude, I wouldn't be sitting in the very country that I am sitting in today since no one would have bothered to explore this far west!
-S
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