Our job is to observe nature and name things. The better we see nature the more things we see that need naming. If we want to name things meaningfully, we need to classify things, and cosmology is so far the best science we have to classify things we see when we look out into space.
Maybe that's your job because you want it to be your job.
The better we see nature the more things we see that need naming
Oh, wow, that's really important for putting bread on the table and keeping the water warm. When we look up we see "Orion." Right. That's very important. Maybe it used to be important for navgiation at one point in human history, but not any more.
If we want to name things meaningfully, we need to classify things, and cosmology is so far the best science we have to classify things we see when we look out into space.
What is "meaningful" about Orion or Canis Major? Or Andromeda or M81? What meaning do you get out of NGC238?
Are we any closer to them just because we can see them and name them? Is there any chance that we may be closer to them in any meaningful way and then if we were closer what meaningful experience would that be?
To "go where no man has ever gone before?" And that would accomplish what Captain Kirk?ing us "closer" to God, or make life better on earth for next generations?
As I said, cosmologists are a bunch of ego-centric, immature adults with too much time on their hands, contributing absolutely nothing to the world. Universities are their private little playpens that cost hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' and other money that could be used for more meaningful discoveries.