[PeterPrinciple]

What’s really asinine is that our “scientists” can drum up billions of dollars to research, postulate and theorize what’s on/in a planet millions/billions of light years from Earth, but can’t do it in their own backyard.

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You can’t be held accountable for your theory out there.................

[Reily]

Cosmology which I am sure you are alluding never ever costed billions and billions of dollars in total. Maybe for one effort at most the equivalent of a Phase I STTR ($150K-$200K) for some professor time, some grad students, a post grad or 2 & some computer time.

Even if the work/theory later goes belly-up, there are technical/engineering spin-offs (maybe not directly but indirectly!) even from something this esoteric.