[Delacon]

Where are the statesmen these days.

[allmendream]

R.R. Wilson was a Scientist. It was Postore who was a U.S. Senator. It was Senator Pastore’s job to ask about the possible value of the particle accelerator towards national defense. Perhaps Wilson was a bit defensive about it having been part of the Manhattan Project (that was the Nuke Program to those of you in Rio Linda); he bristled at the idea that Science is only good for making better bombs.

Wilson said what Derb was going for. Science is an art, and it is something that we as Americans can be proud of being among the best and the brightest at. And unlike many other arts that sit in one place and brighten only the countenance of its host nation and those lucky enough to visit, the currency of Scientific knowledge enriches all nations.