(Derek Lyons) writes:

(Hallerb) wrote:
All future efforts should be required to preoduce a yearly summary of
scientific achievements and their revelance to mankind.

Iss would certinally fail at that.

Any half complete scientific facility would fail at that.

Heck, most complete scientific facilities would have a hard time
justifying things on an annual basis. I'm coming up on nearly a year of
work at a university now; what I've accomplished are two classes taught,
a half-dozen papers in various stages of completion, and a couple chapters
for a textbook. Nice, but if you picked a person at random off the street
and asked me to say how any of this made his life measurably better, I'd
have to point towards a nearby tall building, shout, ``Look, a big
distracting thing!'' and run away. But I'd still say I'm worth the cost.

Joseph Nebus
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