RE: Practical uses of big science projects
June 8, 2015 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2015 at 3:06 pm by Alex K.)
(June 8, 2015 at 2:52 pm)Chuck Wrote: In fairness, this thing generates revenue.
Who cares whether it generates revenue? Revenue is just green pieces of paper changing places. Revenue does not magically compensate for the man hours and resources that were used for this thing, and those are the only thing that counts in this discussion:
With investments of this proportion, and in particular when the topic of the discussion is which endeavours we as a species should and can afford, the business model of some shipping company does not matter. What matters is only what the resources and manpower available to mankind are used for. The price in money paid for the boat is just a shorthand to estimate this effort.
That it generates revenue merely means that some other people are willing to trade the work they do in order to ride on this boat, it has nothing to do with the resources sunk into building it.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
