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Originally Posted by GloryDayz
I pray my kids have the option too. So like I said, keep funding science at the expense of other man-made needs since history has shown those other needs won't even end (they defy physics)...
One has to wonder where we'd be today had we not seemingly gone chincy on space exploration after beating the Russians to the moon and then the space shuttle. Yeah, there have been a few things here and there, but NOTHING like the effort we made in the 60s...
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The USA saw it as a war, a challenge to be overcome. Money wasn't the goal, the pursuit of knowledge was more important.
For better or worse our society wants and rewards the making of money. The pursuit of science that may not see a practical application for 30, 50, 100 years just doesn't have the value it should have in this generation.
My son dropped out of college for a semester. He was on the path to make 100+K a year in 6 months. He still wants to have money, be rich enough to do what he wants in life. But, he made a decision that how you get to the making money, being rich part was just as important as the money itself.
For him the never ending intelletual challenge of physics was a better path than just making money for making money sake.
But who knows maybe after the undergraduate is finished he says I just want money.
