I love this. This is why we need science: a very interesting and curious fact is examined. Experiments are done and a toy is built based on the findings. It

I love this. This is why we need science: a very interesting and curious fact is examined. Experiments are done and a toy is built based on the findings. It is all totally useless, excepts that human knowledge is brought forward and it is also fun. This is important. It is the reason why we are here. Life would be dull without these kind of highlights in my day. And for this, public funding is needed, because it makes people happy, and happiness is an important persuable goal of many public bodies. And because goal directed research (which is often dull and predictable) of stuff that can be financially exploited is funded anyway, non-publically.