Even for someone very interested in science, technology and its applications to our lives, I can't quite understand why people would spend enormous amounts of time and money in pursuing something like this. I mean, what's the point? And whom are you proving it to? This is not even in the category of those findings that one would associate with "pure science", since it's all about some exotic category of numbers (I found about what Mersenne primes are, btw, but I'm sure I'll forget all about them in a week or two). What exactly does this huge monster of a number mean to scientists anyway?
For all of science's claim to rationality, such news argues against it. And I, for one, am not impressed; not one bit!
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