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7435762 No.7435762 [Reply] [Original]

why do we do all the useless sciences? wouldn't that money be better spent on something better?

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>>7435762
but how would you define one science as better than another? who's to decide?

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>>7435762
The sciences that later gave us nuclear power, lasers, electricity, modern computers, powered heavier-than-air flight and many more besides, were all once considered curios without use.

Science is not a linear path like in your vidya gaems.

>> No.7435899

>>7435763
The first thing the human race should do it secure our existence in this universe. We are super vulnerable right now.