Finding out if there is water on some distant planet’s moon or whatever has no practical use to improve status of humanity on planet earth.
But the effort supports lots of highly paid jobs at tax payer expense. It is worse than that, out treasury is big time in a hole, so we do all this research with borrowed money.
Finding out if there is land across some distant ocean or whatever has no practical use to improve status of humanity on planet earth.
But the effort supports lots of highly paid jobs at the Queen’s expense.