Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Knowledge is merely the accumulation of facts, if it does not engender wisdom it is intrinsically useless, because you can't understand how to use it. While some knowledge might be worth knowing without an obvious practical application knowledge is not "an end of itself" in any acknowledged philosophical sense I kinow.
But we don't know if there are any obvious practical applications. There could be dozens that we just don't know enough right now to make sense of. We accumulate facts and then someone makes sense of them. So the pursuit of knowledge is a worthwhile goal. I wouldn't be surprised if just the process of building the thing taught them enough to eventually be worth the money.

And information about how the universe works is interesting, and therefore useful.


There is a 1:150 million chance it could trigger a quantom singularity and destry the solar system, it's highly unlikely, but possible. Now you might say, "well that's not going to happen" and you'd almost certainly be right, but the fact is that it could and the sheer hubris of the scientists involved in building the thing without first getting the consent of every man woman and child on the sodding planet is astounding.
Isn't that black hole destroy the solar system stuff just rumor?