Well, also, shrimp being on a treadmill is a small part of the research that was facilitated by this grant, but it naturally creates a funny image in your head, which is why it's used as a meme by the right-wing forces that want to stop government spending. This was a scandal from 2011, and the actual study had to do with some important issues, like the effects of bacteria exposure on crustaceans, which are a major part of agriculture around the country. You can say that this part of the research looks silly, like shrimp being on a treadmill. It is a funny picture. Or you could say that it lacks practical application, but a lot of science looks that way to people who don't understand what the actual variables that are being examined by these studies are.