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While Andorsky admits that the science argument is "compelling," more compelling is the unmentioned fact that many significant scientific discoveries occur as a result of an experiment performed for an entirely different purpose. In the absence of a human scientist with the capability to adjust experimental conditions at moment's notice, experiments might have to be repeated several times to yield results, or worse, abandoned due to their excessive costliness, against which Andorsky rails. To cite a historical example, would Alexander Fleming have isolated penicillin if he had to conduct his research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final...
...from a scientist's point of view, the current manned program is unjustified and wasteful. But many of Freedom's advocates argue that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is not what manned spaceflight is all about. No, it's about humanity transcending its current planetary limits. And it's about astronauts sailing through the blackness of space and walking on the surface of new worlds, just as Christopher Columbus did half a millennium...
More recently, CfA researchers discoveredcompelling evidence for the existence of blackholes. The research team of Professor of AstronomyJames M. Moran, also a senior scientist at theCenter, worked with scientists from Japan toanalyze the data coming from 10 radio telescopes...
DIED. ADOLF BUTENANDT, 91, German scientist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on hormones; in Munich. Beginning in 1929, Butenandt isolated a number of previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist...
...opinion of a prominent French scientist means anything, something like that might just come to pass. Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, developer of the controversial RU 486 "abortion pill," had Paris in a tizzy last week. In a cover story in the French weekly Le Point, he touted the potential of an antiaging pill based on a hormone that might ease many of the discomforts of the elderly...