How much of a difference do you think $1bn of funding would make for those endeavours?
Many billions go into cancer research every year; much less is spent on fusion energy research. The per-dollar impact would probably be a lot larger for something comparatively less-well funded, wouldn't it?
The investment is in sentient life. Give the next race the things they need early on to reach the stars, go beyond, colonize space, and prevent a cycle of extinction. That is the 2nd best return on an investment. The best return on investment is
No, no, I was suggesting that it's a useless endeavor. Curing cancer is decades off if not centuries because it's not too far off from the challenge of biological immortality in the first place. Lack of return is because you wont fucking find anything.
But, we've already been curing cancers, every day now.
You should consider investing in a method that is not idiotic then.
Isn't the 'Superman Memory Crystal' (what a shitty name desu) thing that was announced earlier this year essentially that?
I think it was meant to store data for something like 9 billion years.
Even though fusion is certainly needed, as we're reaching an energy crisis. As for wormhole travel, it might be impossible, that is true, but if possible it would be one of the ways to save humanity from certain and inexorable eventual extinction.
For clarity, by 'invest' I don't mean purely for economic return - although any scientific effort worth pursuing probably carries with it a significant economic benefit, it may be difficult to capture that benefit as profit.
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Yes, we have had this technology for a long time now. Way less than 9 billion years though, as the storage length is limited to the physical degradation of the material.
Wouldn't we have to figure out how to [i]not[i] fuck up/unfuck up out own planet first?