[Newsbot]

Title: SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-26 15:53:13

[Prof_Chomsky]

Have to love it when you can afford to cut hundreds of billions in taxes to people so rich they had to build special 6 star hotels to cater to their decadent royal tastes, but we can't afford 3 cents a piece to fund real science and feed the most basic human need that brought us out of caves and into the world we have today - curiosity.

[ShepherdsDog]

They're shutting it down because someone out there used the galactic equivalency of *69

[GreenTiger]

Prof_Chomsky Prof_Chomsky:

Have to love it when you can afford to cut hundreds of billions in taxes to people so rich they had to build special 6 star hotels to cater to their decadent royal tastes, but we can't afford 3 cents a piece to fund real science and feed the most basic human need that brought us out of caves and into the world we have today - curiosity.

Yes, as Neil Tyson, Director of the Museum on Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium has so eloquently pointed out that some of the very practical contributions such as the MRI come from pure research and that they all need to be funded. In the case of the MRI that came from astrophysics research, some engineers and Doctors said he could use this in the Medical Field and the MRI came into existence.

We waste a lot of money on stupid shit but whine about paying for science the thing that makes the modern world the modern world. At times I wonder if we headed back into the caves.

[Prof_Chomsky]

Same goes with the space program in general and nearly all other fields of "research for the sake of research". I remember watching a presentation once at a museum in Canada that gave astounding numbers. It said something in the neighbourhood of a few hundred billion had been spent on NASA during it's life, but profits from patents created exclusively for space travel alone were in the trillions. That didn't even measure the value of all the beneficial effects those new technologies and products have on society and our every day lives.

I honestly don't want to live in a stagnant world with no hopes or dreams.

[SprCForr]

Hopefully with this story hitting the media, the powers that be will scratch up some funding.