I worked in a national Japanese Lab for a year. For me, the illusion of tech advancement was shattered when I was told I needed to fill-out a form by hand to get access to a high-performance computing facility. I got my login and pass info about 5 business days after I mailed my application form by post.

Would you describe a parasite that kills its host as efficient?

Earlier this year, NASA selected two missions to Venus as finalists for the next Discovery-class mission, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-four-possibl...

It's unclear if these missions are currently designed to be able to detect phosphine though.

While this is true when considering the total sum of the DoD budget, I think it would be more fair to compare the DoD's R&D budget -- which stood at something like $60B vs. NASA's $21B total... which really makes you wonder.. Anyway, along with people with stars on their shoulders, you can also piss off a congress-person who has a large NASA facility in their district..

The internet was created in a particle-physics laboratory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

In the last 100 years, advances in particle physics have been aided by our study of high-energy mechanisms in the universe (nuclear fusion in star systems, supernovae, acceleration of the expansion of the universe, etc.)..

so you have internet thanks, in part, to astronomy..

what a silly comment..

Again you make wild false claims..

The first major breakthroughs for understanding nuclear fusion came because we wanted to understand what powered the Sun and Stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_nuclear_fusion

.. and these events began 100 years ago.

Part of what you say is true, we make discoveries by looking at things.. Astronomy gives us more things to look at, and in energy regimes that cost many $$ to replicate in experiments on Earth..

Your claim is not substantiated by the source, while mine actually is.

Without Einstein's E = mc^2, Arthur Eddington would not have realized that the fusing of nuclei could power the sun. In other words, he realized that fusing two atoms would release a lot of energy thanks to terrestrial research, and then hypothesized that this is what must power the sun. He did not come to this theory from staring at the sun through a telescope. Astronomy clearly did not lead to fusion - atomic theory did, which did not come from astronomy.

And neither did Einstein formulate E = mc^2 because he was an avid astronomer who wanted to understand the sun.

I am well aware this happened more than 100 years ago, not sure why you would be under the impression that I thought otherwise or needed to hear that for some reason.

The discovery and confirmation of relativistic physics has resulted in more efficient materials research and led to space technology (communications) and microprocessor improvements here on earth.

The World Wide Web is not the internet, but your point is taken.