This is just demanding to know where research will lead us, as though it's the tech tree in a 4X game. You'd be equally opposed to Sabine's alternative since w

This is just demanding to know where research will lead us, as though it's the tech tree in a 4X game. You'd be equally opposed to Sabine's alternative since what use is knowing anything about dark matter? For that matter who cares where the universe came from. What have telescopes helped us with lately?