I quite like that they were willing to try, even if it was a waste of resources. Sometimes you just have to do experiments, even if the outcome isn't wholly known.
To a point - some questions aren't worth testing. Questions like "What if I can eat uranium?" or "What happens if I fill my car's gas tank with water" are costly and avoidable. Using basic reasoning skills instead of credulous consideration of magical powers seems a reasonable threshold for discarding certain research. I don't need to spend billions of dollars trying to figure out how to cut people in half and put th…
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