[meteorite-list] The Human Presence in the Solar System

From: Larry Atkins <thetoprok_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:25:33 -0400
Message-ID: <8CDB6CD48B2BB1D-191C-46337_at_webmail-m039.sysops.aol.com>

Very well said. True words of wisdom and I couldn't agree more.


Sincerely,
Larry Atkins
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com>
To: Jeff Kuyken <info at meteorites.com.au>;
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 10:24 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Human Presence in the Solar System


The nature of this list means that I am certainly preaching to the
converted but
I'll have my say anyway.

Research and discovery for it's own sake is uniquely human. It is true
that it
costs a lot of money but we all know it's very little in the grand
scheme.
As a gross oversimplification of things, mathematicians find out how
numbers
play, physicists work out a practical application for the maths,
engineers find
something useful to do with the maths and EVENTUALLY, through the sheer
endeavour of it all and the processes we go through, the whole of
humanity
benefits. It's a similar story is for all sciences.
We shouldn't necessarily be doing things with a view to long term
benefit. We
should do it because we are human. The long term benefits will come by
virtue of
us having achieved the remarkable.

Rob McC




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Received on Tue 22 Mar 2011 01:25:33 PM PDT