[hattend]

How does this further science? The fact that they did it?

We and every other galaxy is heading someplace 200 million light years away so it’s billions of years in the future...who cares?

Guess I’m a Luddite after all.

[LibWhacker]

I would say it gives us a more comprehensive understanding of the world in which we live, which is a common goal of all scientific disciplines. We may not always know a priori what good some new discovery will do for us, if any, but in the aggregate, our advancing scientific knowledge has been a marvelous thing for humanity and few could seriously argue we should turn back. (Don't tell the Unabomber I said that!)