We should scour the moon for ancient traces of aliens, say scientists

[Boston_Chemist]

13. As I said: Astrophysics itself is interesting, but it ultimately adresses intangibles.

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Understanding answers to the questions surrounding our presence in the universe is a philosophical excercise. These questions are certainly worth answering, but they should ultimately lose out to, say, concerns of urgent immediacy. I would never propose cutting funding to the National Institutes of Health for the sake of a new and fancier telescope in orbit around the planet. It is a matter of priorities of governance.

Advances in science will come by hook or by crook. You shouldn't arrogantly assume that they are only attributable to this or that field. All physicists are chemists at some level, and all chemists are physicists at some other level. And the real worker bees are the engineering types: Hats off to them.