Studying astronomy is hardly worthless. Recently a new "force" was discovered and labled the "dark" force, a very bad name conjuring Star Wars tie ins. The dark force was hinted at by Einstein and they think its the reason are universe is expanding and speeding up. The down side is if unchecked the is new force could eventually accelerate the universe to the point were it would stretch us into atoms. Its being debated now and we know nothing about it nor any possible benefits to us. One thing I would like point out unless we study outside our little world we won't know all the rules and will be stuck with what we can expierence here.
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