09-15-2020, 08:16 AM
I've waited years for someone else to broach this question and no one has, so I will. Please do not interpret the question as hostile, but I do think it warrants being addressed and may be why there is an apparent lack of excitement about the microbes on Venus. So here goes:
We are in the throes of a pandemic and climate change is becoming increasingly dramatic and destructive. In light of the demands for medical and ecological research funding (among others), how does funding astronomical research address the needs of our planet?
Again, this is an informational question, not a challenge.
We are in the throes of a pandemic and climate change is becoming increasingly dramatic and destructive. In light of the demands for medical and ecological research funding (among others), how does funding astronomical research address the needs of our planet?
Again, this is an informational question, not a challenge.
Certainty will be the death of us.