[RinaseaofDs]

Try doing without all of the benefits of the residual technologies gleaned from nuclear research or the space program for one day and then ask me that question.

Funny how there are no luddites in the outpatient ward of a cancer ward. Ask anyone who's beaten cancer if nuclear research isn't worth it.

Smoke detectors, nuclear warheads, guidance systems, velcro, satellite TV, satellite everything, and a host of things you take for granted everyday started as things discovered in a lab or at NASA.

The Internet was a DARPA project. What a freakin' waste of taxpayer funds that was.

The answer is no. There is no limit to the amount of money we should spend to legitimately push back the frontiers of ignorance. Studying cow farts or the viscous properties of ketchup are probably things we can do without.

[from occupied ga]

Try doing without all of the benefits of the residual technologies gleaned from nuclear research or the space program for one day and then ask me that question.

They your position is that without government funded research these is no research?