notmtwain [TotalFark] Quote 2008-09-09 09:40:04 AM
"Both the LHC and the Space program are vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out. Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn't deserve the epithet 'human'."
It's his version of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." You know you're in trouble when they start on the "cheap as a percentage of world GDP" argument.
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Läs mer: FARK.com: (3859286) Stephen Hawking has said the Large Hadron Collider is "vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out". If only he would stop ringing submitter's answerphone every night to tell him the time and date