Gravitational Waves Discovered for the First Time!

Well I agree that physics should always be explored and tested. The LIGO lab to me has always struck me as a ginormous waste of money and time. It's a lab meant to prove a theory that we already trust with a test that has no practical applications. To me it flys in the face of what science means to me. Science to me is a means to solve our problems, which we have no shortage of today, I think that time and money could have been better spent