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In the vein of "purposes of scientific endeavours", my favourite example is the laser. When it was first developed in th 1960s, there were no practical applications at all for a nice coherent red dot of light.
How could those scientists have foreseen:
Optical data storage
Eye surgery
Measuring the distance to the moon
Metal machining
Inertial confinement fusion
Hair removal
LIDAR
and many more besides...
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