i can see your point and understand your frustrations with what seems to be a frivolous discovery, but here's my opinion (if you were really wondering and not just asking a rhetorical question lol); because we're human and some of us, especially scientists, have this insatiable curiosity, this need to take things apart and see how they work, to muck and fidget until we've broken it down into as many teeny tiny pieces as we can in the hope that it will help us to better understand our world or maybe even give us a clue to those killer questions: why are we HERE? what IS the meaning of life?

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose