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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (3278)	1/12/2006 11:49:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217942

Heck, next thing you know, ants will be solving the Schroedinger equation for us. But hang on, decades ago, people found that bees teach other bees where to go for flowers. They do a dance and stuff while the other bees watch. Then off the go to the goodies. <LONDON -- British researchers said yesterday that they had uncovered the first proof of teaching in animals: ants showing each other the way to food. >> Mqurice

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (3278)	1/13/2006 7:04:21 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217942

Who pays for? Who benefits? These are questions that are not asked. Governments put a high cost on society and misuse the money. The way citizens who pay for those costs can't, don;t know or doesn't have the time to check what governments are doing wit their money paid up through taxes. How much is spent in useless research? How much of goes under research is pseudo-job? Any country like China, which is not spending in useless research is at an advantage vis a vis the countries that got rich before them and are still speeding freely even though they are not seeing a return on their investment in the science and research. It will be difficult to persuade me that studying ants goes more than satisfy curiosity. But I always like to give a real life example: When telecommunications operators used to screw customer through monopolies, they use to have their own in-house research. All liked to emulate Ma Bell and its Bell Labs Bell Labs' scientists instead of investing the money of the company to make something useful, they were using company's money to earn Nobel prizes. If one would would contest them they would say: "But we discovered the transistor and fiber optics! We need to keep researching." Until globalization (opening markets, de-regulation, cheaper technology, faster technological development, venture capitalism) hit them... They key to survive and prosper is no longer follow examples. No longer conform. The survivors will be subversives that flip the concept and gain advantage. China flipped -as Japan and Singapore did- and is gaining on everyone else in the world.