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Bernardo de La Paz

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4. What? !?!? Fundamental research gave you the computer you posted with. Ref Wernher von Braun

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 26, 2021, 06:46 AM

Apr 2021

"Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." -- Wernher von Braun.

I think that at some point it's time to stop all this messing about. I don't see any good coming out of doing things just because we can.

What the heck would lead you to write such arrant nonsense?

Fundamental research is incredibly important. You would be tilling the earth behind an ox if not for fundamental research. Get real.

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