Rainbow Serpent on the Moon

It seems the taxpayer's hard earned funding of this nation's infrastructure is being funnelled into various areas of research which has no basis in merit or worth, each to a cool tune of around half a million dollars.

Never mind the headline that graces this piece from The Daily Mail. Bad enough as that is, there's more grants being put forward into what seems to be the pursuit of the fundamentally useless.

Money, if you can believe it, has been assigned to the study and examination of the equally pointless.

From the article: "Monash University's Dr Emily van der Nage was awarded $525,650 to explore social, ethical and regulatory challenges in Australia's emerging social media pornography industry."

Is she going to set up an OnlyFans account, and report her findings?

Don't go blind, doctor.

There are more. All of them ludicrous, such as the investigation of the possibility of channelling food waste into the building of roads. That one really takes the cake.