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Phil Tanny's avatar

Ok, so this is fairly labeled trolling, but.... Physicists first give us the tools by which we can destroy everything everywhere in a highly efficient manner, and then.... They lecture us about not sufficiently funding their work.

Seriously, the question that the science community should be addressing is....

How much power can human beings successfully manage?

For the purposes of this post I'll define "successfully manage" as not crashing the civilization that science depends upon.

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Dallas E Weaver's avatar

Disappointing that NSF is now following the anti-meritocratic path. Having been someone who benefited from being good at test taking that allow me to escape the shop class/ mechanic path my K-12 eduction had me on this trend will be detrimental to the future of this planet. We will need the super bright nerds who understand the details to allow humanity to continue to solve the problems of poverty and starvation in a world with 3 billion more people on the way.

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