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Originally Posted by smileyman
I second this one. I know LOTS of money was spent to fund this research. Now what can we do with it...I know some of it gets the hush hush for military and national security but how can this make our lives better now!
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That's what applied science is for.
This experiment seems to be more for the sake of pure science.
It's easy to say "let's work on stuff that benefits us now", but many of our greatest practical discoveries have come as the often unexpected result of seemingly unrelated research.