Scientific Woes

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(Note: I wrote this when I had to appear busy, doing some kind of meaningful work. So this is going to even more crappy than usual. In fact, I added what you are reading now later, to try to pad out the post.)
Sometimes, I worry about the future of science. I mean, it's just not progressing like it should. I don't mean to be overly dramatic, or anything, but there seems to be more useful work being done in the pseudo-sciences than in actual ones. By pseudo-sciences, I mean astrology, humanities, and general bull shit. To elucidate, recent studies show that:
1. Buttered bread is 32% more likely to fall buttered-side down, when dropped from heights ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 metres. 
2. The average British citizen is has a 80% chance to letting biscuits get perfectly saturated in tea, without the biscuit breaking off. 
3. Men who consume more than 80 grams of sugar per day are 97 times more likely to sleep on their left sides. 
4. Left handed people, on average, call "tails" while tossing a coin more than right handed people. 
(I didn't make any of that up. All statistics are courtesy of the department of Too Much Time on their Hands at the university of Why Don't Other Scientists Take Me Seriously). 

I mean, has common sense lost it's place in this world?
(Conversation between me and a scientist friend of mine)
Me: Hey, I heard a good joke recently. Can you name a liquid that turns solid upon heating?
Friend: Are you mad? Liquids can't turn solid upon application of heat. It would reverse the inequality sign in the Gibbs-Helmholtz Equation, thus causing entropy to decrease with time. The universe would start to compress into a void, and all life would cease to exist. Is that what you want? The total annihilation of mankind, just for your silly joke? You're evil! So evil that you would sacrifice all of creation for the sake of a punch line. 
Me (Reeling from this verbal barrage): Jeez, relax man. I was talking about Dosa maavu, or Pancake batter. 
Do you see what I mean? 

I think science and technology is going so far ahead, that we have actually just come back in a circle. 
Recently, a team of engineers have developed a solar powered clothes dryer. It is still in it's prototype stages, but essentially, it consists of a little box that can wash two shirts at a time, and takes a total of 45 minutes per cycle. The box's dimensions are 1.5X1X1, and it weighs twelve kilos, and is made of steel. The main cost factor comes from the internal wiring, that uses 3 metres of high grade silver wire. 
Now you give me even thirty centimetres of wire (or rope, or even twine would suffice), and I'll dry out your clothes for you, using solar power, as we have been doing for generations. 
It's called HANGING THEM OUT TO DRY IN THE FREAKIN' SUN! 
Have I made my point? 

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