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Originally posted by UnusualBoy
They should invest that money on more productive things not to see if there's life in other planets but w.e.  |
NASA barely has a budget anymore, first of all. Second of all, finding new forms of life that potentially work in fundamentally different ways could be extremely beneficial to science, medicine, and our overall understanding of what life even is. When we thought we discovered arsenic-based life here on Earth, it could have revolutionized certain aspects of scientific thought. Imagine what we can discover outside our own boundaries - and imagine the potential if humans ever find out that there's a place, potentially in our solar system, where we could live and study and learn.
Very little is more productive or valuable than knowledge.
