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The debate over 'what constitutes a planet' is a fair question when there are large numbers of scientists world wid looking for evidence of planets orbiting other stars. I can't imagine 'considerable funds' were spent on the question - the scientists and amateur astronomers involved in the debate would have had the argument come what may. Interestingly astronomy is really the only remaining area of the sciences where total amateurs can make a full and important contribution to research. Not to mention SETI which allowed millions of non-scientists to contribute computer power.
Money burns in failure constantly in all walks of life ... just take a look at your local government budget?
If it comes to that anything that is ephemeral (such as any performance) could be considered a waste of resources but do we really want a world devoid of everything that isn't useful? I certainly don't.-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2008, 07:11 AM)
Have you noticed that non-scientists never really ask questions like:
- Why bother putting on plays at the theatre (which hardly anyone goes to) or making films
- Why write a book (hardly anyone will read it)
- Why learn a foreign language (most of the world speaks English)
- Why compose a symphony (only a tiny minority listen to modern music)
- Why produce a painting (if its good it will be bought and locked away in a safe as an investment)
None of these things 'acheive' anything other than pleasure (with the possible exception of learning a language) and the amount of money spent (particularly on the first in the list) makes science budgets pale into insignificance.-Carol Haynes (September 12, 2008, 05:44 PM)
Who would have expected the Curie's discovery and theory of radioactivity to have such a remarkable impact on medicine and power generation? Radioactivity was indirectly responsible for the death of Marie Curie after all but during her own lifetime 'little curie' radiography units were used to treat wounded soldiers in World War I.True, But what about experiements like "Anti-Matter", rather than solving questions of Religious beliefs & Energy Alternative, if it falls in Wrong Hands what will happen? Scientist who will work on "Anti-Matter" will not be remebered for good like marrie curie.-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2008, 05:25 AM)
There is no chance of Black-holes as of now...
Dont you think they are the first one to die if such thing happen,isnt it? Why they will risk their life just to find out Big-bang? 
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But my webhost refuses to update Wordpress instantly they usually take 1+ month to update Wordpress in fatastico .So I’ll need time of about 1 month till they update Wordpress.I think when Wordpress 2.7 will be out then they’ll update my Wordpress to 2.6 ,lol. 
,I just forgot some tags/categary as I was busy tweaking the theme.