http://www.thickets.net/toren/2009/03/12/why-science-is-important/ Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:33:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2009/03/12/why-science-is-important/comment-page-1/#comment-108746 wayne Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:15:55 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/?p=3962#comment-108746 Wow, as a former astrophysicist with a fair number of papers on astro-ph, I find this horrifying. Services like astro-ph (and there are a number of others) make it fast and easy to distribute published papers and make it easier to find results. This dissemination of knowledge is vital to a healthy scientific community. Just having all that information electronically indexed is a major improvement over the way things were done before. If the US is to stay relevant in basic research, services such as astro-ph have to exist. Wow, as a former astrophysicist with a fair number of papers on astro-ph, I find this horrifying. Services like astro-ph (and there are a number of others) make it fast and easy to distribute published papers and make it easier to find results. This dissemination of knowledge is vital to a healthy scientific community. Just having all that information electronically indexed is a major improvement over the way things were done before. If the US is to stay relevant in basic research, services such as astro-ph have to exist.

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