Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for January 02, 2021
Transcript:
What's the point of giant particle colliders? You can't feed the hungry with them, you can't cure cancer with them, you can't stop poverty with them! I agree! That's why I think we should scrap the Eiffel tower for iron, quarry the pyramids, and turn the Statue of Liberty into copper wiring. I'm not sure that's- Sorry, can't hear you. I only listen to noises that might save babies.
I used to hear the same sort of arguments about our space program. Computers and cell phones would probably not be so ubiquitous if we hadn’t had the space program. Hmmm, maybe that wouldn’t have bee such a bad thing in hindsight.