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I'm not saying it's not scientifically answerable, just that hiring people specifically to answer it is not practical.

This type of thing usually comes through unplanned breakthroughs. You can't discover that the earth revolves around the sun just by paying tons of money to researchers and asking them to figure out astronomy. All that would get you would be some extremely sophisticated Copernican cycle-based models.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-09




Bell Labs made a bunch of breakthroughs that way, i.e. information theory.




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