Is the processing lab actually any use at all!?

[Eric S]

But it won't carry back data from a thermometer or seismograph. Those science points are still stored in the measurement device itself and can't be moved into the lab.

Worse, from the point of lab usefulness, you CAN move those results into a capsule with an EVA'ed kerbal. If that feature hadn't been added at the same time as the lab, the lab might be more useful. Not to say that I want them to undo that feature.

[Vahal]

yeah sure a Kerbal can't take data from science module ... with the state of art leading to those technologies he could take data from the comfy seat of his pod and stack same type of reports.