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Old 20th November 2012, 07:21 PM   #303
The Norseman
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Originally Posted by Garnabby View Post
But can you say with much likelihood that the benefits of that sort of science (in isolation) greatly outweigh the downside? Can science, from this point on, ever (hope to) offset all its outright deaths?
Why would you qualify that question with the phrase "in isolation"? What are you trying to get at with the second question? It seems that you are approaching the question as if a body of knowledge or a methodology (science) somehow owes something to humanity... I guess...?


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Can you say that the universe's "asking price" has gone up because of some ad hoc scientific advancements.
Nonsensical.


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Or that, in a thousand years from now, also the future will still revere the current set of noted scientists?
Irrelevant.
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