Researchers from Johns Hopkins University are leading a study involving four microwave telescopes that are attempting to detect evidence of the "Big Bang" from 13 billion years ago. The telescopes are sited in the Chilean Andes but are capable of doing their job without being in space. The results have been encouraging, apparently.
The question remains, however, in what the usefulness might be of any possible information regarding an event thought to have occurred long before the earth even existed. NASA, which operates on taxpayer funding, is paying for this research. It's difficult to see how this expense might benefit the man on the cul de sac. It seems that it might be more appropriate to invest in research that might enable highway paving to last more than two or three years before being ripped up and replaced.
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