Reply #15: What's Wrong with a Discussion of Inquiry?

[NashVegas]

The person who started the thread that's led to the current publicity said it straight up front: it was a dumb question. If you read through the LBN thread about the NYT article, you'll see her fully explain why she thought it was something worth considering.

Science is great and science is needed, but science would never have existed without people prone to imagination and dumb questions. Without them, there'd be no call to have scientists in the first place. When you get to where you know everything, the game's over.

Without centuries of such imaginative people, no nuclear scientist in the world would ever come home to eat chicken kiev - they'd still be stuck on gruel and roasted squirrels, if lucky. :D

on edit:

here's the original post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x1616

For someone not up to speed on the latest in geo-science, it's legitimate to wonder if setting off nuclear bombs in the earth is really such a good idea.