The efforts of science

All the scientific brains in the world, looking at the unnecessary?
Example of unnecessary efforts:
https://onezero.medium.com/scientists-grew-a-mouse-fetus-without-sperm-or-eggs-51180f11f504
Example of missed need:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Why is this?

@yo-its-me said
All the scientific brains in the world, looking at the unnecessary?
Example of unnecessary efforts:
https://onezero.medium.com/scientists-grew-a-mouse-fetus-without-sperm-or-eggs-51180f11f504
Example of missed need:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Why is this?

Blue sky research by its nature has the look of unnecessary. I think that growing a mammal without egg or sperm is worth their time and effort.

@kevcvs57 said
Blue sky research by its nature has the look of unnecessary. I think that growing a mammal without egg or sperm is worth their time and effort.

Do you want your sex to be obsolete?
There's also space travel, pseudo foods. I'm sure there's much more.

@yo-its-me said
All the scientific brains in the world, looking at the unnecessary?
Example of unnecessary efforts:
https://onezero.medium.com/scientists-grew-a-mouse-fetus-without-sperm-or-eggs-51180f11f504
Example of missed need:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Why is this?

What is necessary?

I think that most scientist think that finding out things is necessary. If those insights prove to have an economic, health related or other side effect is secondary.

@yo-its-me said
Do you want your sex to be obsolete?
There's also space travel, pseudo foods. I'm sure there's much more.

And space travel brought us nothing.

Oh, except first aid blankets, stronger tires, memory foam, MRIs... not to mention improved understanding of the human body.

It's amazing how many useful things scientists and engineers come up with while they're doing 'useless' research.

@yo-its-me said
Do you want your sex to be obsolete?
There's also space travel, pseudo foods. I'm sure there's much more.

No but I might need to reproduce mammals including my own species without eggs and sperm if we keep pouring poisons into the seas and soils that make us and our fellow creatures infertile.
It’s not a skill I’d like us to need to perfect but what l want might be irrelevant.

If you want to grow a biological being for some benefit such as a workforce, then it would be useful to be able to produce them in a lab.

@shallow-blue said
And space travel brought us nothing.

Oh, except first aid blankets, stronger tires, memory foam, MRIs... not to mention improved understanding of the human body.

It's amazing how many useful things scientists and engineers come up with while they're doing 'useless' research.

Wow, I didn't know that.
Thank you

@ponderable said
What is necessary?

I think that most scientist think that finding out things is necessary. If those insights prove to have an economic, health related or other side effect is secondary.

Doesn't it seem that the efforts aren't in the direction of the best for all the humans on the planet- I mean like we have some serious needs that science can help with and we don't need space travel or some other things.

@yo-its-me
Kudo's to you for admitting you didn't know something🙂