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Originally Posted by SeeBass
Oh give me a break...you are not that stupid.
Do I really have to list the numerous advancements from the space program?
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Please do list the "numerous advancements." I don't really care. Technological advances is not the messianic promise to the human race that some posters and many moderns think it should be.
The track record of science doing great things for its own sake isn't exactly great this past century. You have to realize that with all the advances in medicine, transportation, food storage etc... we've allowed technology to run free in some of the most horrifying ways.
A strong public spirit must rule science, which is simply knowledge-collection. If it has no other purpose then itself, it remains completely untied to a source of common human values beyond the most bare humanist principles that scientists try to hold.