On Jul 8, 6:12*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

How exactly does knowing what exactly the universe looked like ten
thousand years after it first came into being, or a hundred years after
it first came into being, going to help us?

Understanding the basics of how the Universe works - dark matter, dark
energy, string theory - could lead to new technology, the way that
understanding the atom did.

We don't have enough energy, we don't have enough land.

John Savard