Survival Research Laboratories

I wonder how the people in SRL are satisfied with what they do? Their creations aren't particularly useful in any research, monetary, or aesthetic sense. They remind me of teenage boys who ride around on motorcycles and want to join the army so everyone else will think they're tough. I also don't really consider what they do "art"; it's more like scientific experimentation; throwing random things together just to see what they'll do. I see how social commentary could be taken out of it, but I don't think that's their main goal with the machines. However, I do respect their idea of trying to siphon off some of the talent that goes into the defense industry as to not "destroy us all."