The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider

Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by rowanG077 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:04PM (#23672746)

So what's your point? The weapon developers are correct of course. But the difference between weapons and super colliders is that super colliders are designer to help humanity instead of destroy it.

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Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by mD5pPxMcS6fVWKE on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:57AM (#23699746)

I can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on virology research or on a collider? Or maybe if you spend $21B on AI research, the computer will solve all the remaining theoretical problems of string theory in 0.21 s.

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Re:The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider by rowanG077 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:35PM (#23705515)

Of course weapons benefit society. I didn't say they didn't...

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