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The issue with judging certain scientific pursuits and trying to ascertain their relevance to the physical word is that not everyone is an expert in every variant of science. And even then, more often than not the potential use of scientific advancement is not always readily apparent. Quite simply put, it is not a field where you can weed out aspects of it as useless, as possible uses are not always obvious.
what's wrong with knowledge for the sake of knowledge? i think in a communist society there would be enough time, resources and people to work on all of the "socially necessary" sciences and study things that may not have immediate or even any "social value"
'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
petronius, the satyricon
