Whats the point of modern science?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I think the OP needs to factor in time into his equation, then contemplate that despite the fact that research conducted in the present might not yield any advances in the immediate future, it doesn't thus equate it to being useless.

Does the OP have any idea the work that went into making penicillin an actual viable antibiotic? And I don't mean the simple accident if Flemming's discovery.

I suspect that perhaps the OP doesn't know, or even care. But he would if he knew .

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In fact, OP, to give you an opportunity to prove that you're no trolling, please define adequately what the difference is between 'modern science' and (by definition) not-modern science, and what the benefits of the latter have been that you feel trump the (imagined?) benefits of the former.

Thanks.