And yet, it eventually worked itself out, we got the telescope in a scaled back fashion, and some of the best science of the past 2 decades in astronomy.
Do write your congressman or woman about this and remind them how short sighted they are being (if you're in the US).
Cutting the budget for an orbiting telescope does not proceed from obscurantism.
The federal government of the United States is $14 trillion in debt. Well-nigh irresistible power blocs have made the largest line items untouchable. The Congresscritters have to do something, so they cut everything else. Thundering about "Science" from the pulpit does not change any of this.
We are going to keep doing what we've been doing until we can't do it anymore.
"Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our views of science are ultimate, that our triumphs are complete, that there are no mysteries in nature, and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
Just don't say this in the context of climate science ...
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And yet, it eventually worked itself out, we got the telescope in a scaled back fashion, and some of the best science of the past 2 decades in astronomy.
Do write your congressman or woman about this and remind them how short sighted they are being (if you're in the US).
Just imagine if this was a private project!
The federal government of the United States is $14 trillion in debt. Well-nigh irresistible power blocs have made the largest line items untouchable. The Congresscritters have to do something, so they cut everything else. Thundering about "Science" from the pulpit does not change any of this.
We are going to keep doing what we've been doing until we can't do it anymore.
Just don't say this in the context of climate science ...
(just a sad thought)