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Originally posted by Hanno:
Unlike other sciences, evolution does not contrubute very much to the modernisation of society, so why is it important anyway? Astronomy, on the other hand, will one day become very useful when we start colonizing other planets.
Just a quick point, astronomy per se isn`t essential to colonisation of other planets, you could for example build a large number of craft and send them off "towards that bit of light over there" it is of course helpfull in choosing destinations that are not too distant and are likely to have suitable real estate, but not essential....
Now when you get there and the planet isn`t quite suitable the ability to terraform would be real handy, I`m thinking a good understanding of evolution and those areas of biology it informs would come in very usefull just then.....
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