Pie in the sky research - real world applications

[Moonhawk]

People often complain about the money spent on projects like the Large Hadron Collider as being a waste of money - but they often fail to consider the huge advances in offshoot technology derived from these projects.

Here is one prime example which could have profound implications for medical science.

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-first-ever-colour-x-...

Full colour x-ray images

[James_B]

People picking CERN as a waste of resources also ought to remember that the web come out of the work there.

[Toaster]

James_B said:

People picking CERN as a waste of resources also ought to remember that the web come out of the work there.

Careful the Americans will tell you they invented it, along with the Internet Protocol.......

[mko9]

James_B said:

People picking CERN as a waste of resources also ought to remember that the web come out of the work there.

So, proof positive? ;-)

[SCEtoAUX]

...and let's not forget that money spent ends up as someone's wages, which they pay tax on, and spend elsewhere...

It might have taken billions to put a man on the moon, but the money doesn't just disappear, it gets spent in the wider economy.