YAY!

Hooray! Not all science has devolved into partisan stupidity. I have just read this article on dark matter research and the line that has made me remember that the climate science is but a tiny fraction of the scientific community, and that it is the scientists like these whom I revere.

These are the scientists whose struggle with the unknown creates giant leaps in technological advancement for the rest of us, but for them leads to a small increase in accuracy or computing power. I am also reading another article, here, which again reminds me of why I hold scientists and engineers in such high regard. This research, which is really not terribly important for what goes on in the world, into how elephants move at high speed is an essential part of scientific research. This research required the use of pressure plates that could withstand elephants running over them. As one of the researchers said,

"We had to build the plates - you just can't go down to your local hardware shop and pick up an elephant-sized force plate."

This may well have meant that this design provided some groundbreaking new technology, unlikely but still needs to be done. So this is a post to say THANKYOU to all you scientists out there taking part in extremely difficult and extremely random experiments. Life would be much more boring without you.