Why did Marquis de Pombal finance seismology: so that "scientists could sit and fantasize without protecting human lives"?
Or so that he could create a forecasting system and use it to protect human lives?
What do you like more: to save people's lives by implementing a created and tested method?
Or are you only interested in fantasies that you will read while sitting in a cemetery of earthquake victims?
This question is a mine strict version, reminding us of the purpose of the work and financing of seismology.