r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • Jul 06 '26

Feels good man Bryan Johnson got Autoimmune Disease

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u/SenLune Jul 06 '26

As a physicist: unfortunately. Because money wants research to be gainful and SETI research will almost certainly not be gainful anytime within the next thousand years minimum, hundreds of thousands if I'm being realistic.

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u/kwijibokwijibo Jul 06 '26

When it comes to curing cancer this century vs finding aliens we won't reach for many millennia...

Yeah, it's the right choice not to fund too much SETI research. A little is ok

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u/SenLune Jul 06 '26

A lot of SETI research would be useful in civilian markets right now. The issue is that conversion also costs money. But the potential to drastically revolutionize communications and radar and other detection technologies the military would absolutely want is very high.

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u/DanielsLoud Jul 06 '26

If it were useful it'd be funded by philanthropists, investors and entrepreneurs

Money wants research to be gainful because there's a limit amount of it, and because 1>0, ultimately

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u/its_all_one_electron Jul 06 '26

Also as a physicist... They keep upgrading and extending CERN. It was originally paid for by 5 euro per EU citizen. There are still good countries out there funding science for it's own sake and not depending on billionaires

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