re: #165 DeafDog

That’s nice. Cyncially continuing, I hear the same arguments about good Art, too. Should the Feds be pumping billions to promote starving artists so one of them can write the next Hamlet? I don’t think so.

Likewise, I’m hesitent of a government trough for every scientist to try to discover the secrets of time travel.

Science has more than the simply aesthetic benefit that art has. If it hadn’t been for the space race a large chunk of the US economy simply would not exist. The Manhattan Project was more than just creating a big bang. Science advancement is not a straight-line thing. You might as well ask what the benefit of a new born baby is.