Originally Posted by elfailo
Plenty of ways you can progress without spending billions on dollars/euro's on a particle accelerator. I think Eclipse may be disappointed that on the one hand science keeps rolling forward without compromise, but on the other hand we still have imbeciles waging war over oil, bearded monkeys bombing skyscrapers and building nukes, and 1/4 of the world still not able to feed themselves properly.
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Of course science compromises. What a ridiculous thing to say. I live in Cambridge and work with many researchers who're on the cutting edge of their respective fields and they are ALL dealing with cuts in funding. Scientific exploration is a far more worthy and useful use of public money than bailing out corrupt financial institutions or paying for a politicians' 3rd home!