Quote Originally Posted by Nickelking View Post
First off you're rather quick to discount nuclear power... that's a huge step in clean energy. But ok, you want to discount that I'm game. What has nuclear physics done for us... it grew the ability for medical imaging by leaps and bounds allowing us to have a much more effecient diagnosis procedure in our medicine. The knowledge regarding half life allowed us to date ancient artifacts much more precicely which hugely helped archeologists. It led to the development of proton therapy for cancer which has saved my grandfathers life. and that clean energy thing, but we won't mention that.

So yeah as you said science doesn't do anything for us.
OK, I stand corrected ... and I'm happy for your grandfather, but what's clean about nuclear energy? It's dangerous (Chernobyl) and leaves a lot of waste that we still don't know what to do with.