> Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one. Well, if you're building something expensive with the intent to perfo

> Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one. Well, if you're building something expensive with the intent to perform science, one would hope that the political answer to this would be informed by science. > To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process. Relevant: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/46 http://cowbirdsinlove.com/46