To fund, or not to fund that is the question.
Where do you draw the line? In art there are many whom most - including myself - would not concider worthy of the term ”artist’ yet who are we to judge? We never know where the next David, Mona Lisa, Metropolis or Amelie will come from. If we deny funding we may deprive ourselves of the next great step. You have to fund exploration in all directions to stand a chance of finding the path.
As in art, Science is an act of exploration. A journey down countless paths that we don’t fully know the destination of. How can we predict the outcome of a particular path? How do we know what will be truly worth it in the long run. Had the Beagle’s expedition not been funded what would that have done to the landscape we know today? How can we be certain the Super Collider would not have produced new valuable insights? Tow the ISS out to the moon and we have a permanent station in lunar orbit. Who know what benefit that structure will give in it’s time span?
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