08-15-2012, 11:28 AM
The pursuit of knowledge is never unjustified.And you can't possibly know what benefits will begained from this. Consider: Orville and Wilbur Wright's first manned flight lasted a couple minutes, was the result of years of experimenting, and was about a hundred years ago. You think either of them thought their work would lead us to Mars? Because essentially that's exactly what has happened.