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To: neverdem

I wonder if this science will ever produce something really useful?


4 posted on 03/13/2009 9:57:08 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB
I wonder if this science will ever produce something really useful?

You always play better when you know the rules of the game.

6 posted on 03/13/2009 10:02:11 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: DB

Actually, particle physics has been useful in developing very small, fast processors that will soon find their way into things like cell phones.


7 posted on 03/13/2009 10:03:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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Look at the technological world around you. It was all made possible by scientific discoveries.


8 posted on 03/13/2009 10:05:33 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: DB

Galileo wondered the same thing.


13 posted on 03/13/2009 11:32:06 PM PDT by cydcharisse
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To: DB
I thought that mixing singleton quarks with low rade kerosene would yield 120 octane gas so you could get 100 MPG in your old Chvey truck.

Science without results does seem to be an exercise in federal funding for the sake of federal funding. Salk is a hero, he saved countless lives. There guys - oy!

15 posted on 03/14/2009 11:03:29 AM PDT by ASOC (This space could be employed, if I could only get a bailout...)
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