Ethereal space research: is it rubbish?
Vast areas of space research are ethereal. They will never have relevance to the human condition.
How will humanity ever benefit from even a fraction of the information caught by the Hubble Telescope and deep space probes? What relevance will knowledge of dark matter, if it even exists, ever have for us on Earth? How will knowledge of the big bang help any of my descendants?
Does ethereal space research bring anything besides a mountain of trivia? Does this research provide value beyond “knowledge for the sake of knowledge”?
If we get nothing out of this research, then public financing of ethereal space research is nothing more than a make-work jobs program.
Here’s a great example of ethereal space research: Mankind shortening the universe life.
Give me a break.
Stephen Hawking, perhaps the prime researcher of irrelevancy, recently said this:
[Knowledge of the universe] puts our human problems into perspective and political differences become insignificant on a cosmic scale. (source)
So we’re blowing billions of dollars on a psychological experiment?
Let’s end all public financing of this space rubbish. Let the nerds do their pointless mathematical space games but not with my money. We have too many uses for our resources in the “here and now” to have a welfare program for nerds.