Unpopular opinion: spending $2 million to dig up a 9,000 year old chewing gum is a waste and I'm tired of pretending it's not | Archaeology Discoveries - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals
Wondering why this is even a debate worth having. Two million bucks for old gum sounds crazy but that money probably came from some science budget that would've gone to something way more boring anyway. The real issue is people acting like this is some huge scandal when half our tax dollars go to stuff way dumber than ancient spit. I get being annoyed but is this really the thing to get worked up about? Seems like a fun weird story more than anything. If they found a 9,000 year old piece of gum with actual DNA and clues about how people lived back then, that's kind of cool honestly.