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  Threshold   RE: Optimistic By Ringold on 10/3/2012 4:39:05 PM
, Rating: 2 That's what I thought too when I read it; what do
they expect to find that they didn't already suspect?  At least
money spent just about anywhere else has a decent likelihood of
creating some truly unexpected result. Searching for gravity
waves has turned in to an unexpected debate about a holographic
universe, for example. Telescopes find unexpected things all the
time, or look at things we know are there but don't at all know
what details we'll find -- unlike the mantle. Bleeding edge
medical research continually seems surprised by what it learns
about how DNA, RNA, proteins, etc work.  Ah well. I just won't
have this in the back of my mind as something I'm looking
forward to, unlike, say, the James Webb Space Telescope, fusion,
VASMIR, etc.  RE: Opt