2)  I think that spending your life learning random things about the environment has its positives and negatives.    One of its positives is that answering these questions could lead us to other discoveries.  For example, discovering how an ocean creature maintains its phosphorescent glow in the pitch-black ocean depths could lead to other discoveries to help human kind.  Another reason it is good is that i find the answers to these random questions are fascinating and I among many other people could probably spend hours learning this kind of stuff.

Scientists spending their lives answering these questions also has negatives.  I feel that these scientists could be doing something like curing cancer or creating a more efficient and environmentally-friendly car.  These people are just answering random inquiries that scientists have rather than fixing the world's scientific problems.  I think in the short run finding the answers to these questions can be interesting but in the long run it really does nothing for the world.