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The 2025 asteroid mission is hardly useless scientifically.
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"I'm just useless".
"You just feel useless.
But -- as Robert Crayhon would have reminded us -- that hardly means it's useless for anything.
Vesalius, who wrote a definitive anatomy text in 1543, told a colleague, Falloppio, "You can hardly ascribe this new and useless part, as if it were an organ, to healthy women," insisting that it was found only in "women hermaphrodites").
Vesalius seems to have had little contact with the female pelvis in vivo, writing to Gabriele Falloppio, who gave his name to the Fallopian tube, "you can hardly ascribe this new and useless part as if it were an organ to healthy women" (what Vesalius's wife, Anne van Hamme, had to say on the matter goes unrecorded).
This caused an upset in the European medical community, and, having read Colombo's and Falloppio's detailed descriptions of the clitoris, Vesalius stated, "It is unreasonable to blame others for incompetence on the basis of some sport of nature you have observed in some women and you can hardly ascribe this new and useless part, as if it were an organ, to healthy women".
Under-resourcing has to be addressed, but is hardly a reason to jettison CRPs as useless.
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