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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
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What's in it for the rest of us? To me this seems like cosmology and finding all of those galaxies way out on the edge. Sure we develop lots of interesting control systems and detectors to find the really heavy elements/distant galaxies but what then?
Other than the myriad technological advancements required to discover "...the heaviest element" and "...the most distant galaxy", what does this pursuit get us?
For heavy elements - we can't do much chemistry beyond the f electrons. And as a metallurgist working with the actinides - there's some cool stuff happening there. But seriously, out there after 100? You'll never get enough in one place to do anything...
(grumpy metallurgist)