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I have noticed that TV stations often put various questions to the
public inviting to call or to vote on-line.  Here are some examples.
Do you think the shuttle program should be discontinued? (YES, NO) Do
you think Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons? (YES, NO)

I have a doctoral degree in Engineering and I would not dare even to
try to respond to the first question.  When the first Sputnik appeared,
everybody thought about possibility of weapons in space and this is
effectively why the whole thing was initiated.  Only later on we
understood the remarkable applications of this technology for
communications.  The same goes for the present research.  We can not
even imagine, what results might come out of it.  So, to answer this
question, one has to perform a very complicated analysis of the money
spent on space research as compared with some alternative spending.
General public can not possibly do that.

The second question about Iran, I do not think even the top CIA
official would know the answer, let alone general public.  Here is my
suggestion for questions, which TV stations can ask public to respond:

1.	Is the square root singularity of stress distribution near an
angular point of a rigid punch still valid? (YES, NO)

2.	Is it possible to obtain a solution of semi-infinite crack problem
as a limiting case of a circular crack problem? (YES, NO)

3.	Is the integral of the square of the Bessel function of zero order
with argument "x" over the interval from zero to infinity finite? (YES,
NO)

All the questions above do make sense, so try to answer them and after
a while I shall tell you what are the right answers.

Fabrikant