Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Sadly my limited use of AI cannot put numbers to the comparative costs of each component, but my point still remains that there does not have to be an absolute tangible reward for all spending to be justified. Yes, the space race may not have generated many tangible rewards (although Sith seems to have debunked your view on that in a few short strokes) but then again what tangible rewards come from the studies of literature, theatre, the arts, long dead languages etc etc - yet you - and I - Im sure would still feel that they should from a part of the "human experience". My study of Chaucer at A level was of no value to me whatsoever except as an academic discipline - whereas the study of astronomy and space was both pleasurable and it seems of lasting value to humanity - and dont forget freeze dried raspberrie and space dust.

Come back to me when Henry Fielding is shown to have cured cancer rather than just having written a few satirical stories 250 years ago. Yet he is still studied today and money is spent on preserving a legacy that has no tangible value
Hardly likely to have done seeing as he died about 270 years ago, GP.