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For now. Do the Elon Musk analysis from first principles. The future of astronomy is clearly outside of Earth's gravity well and atmosphere.

• 317070 7y ago
  Yes, but the current budgets clearly are not.
  • eecc 7y ago
    He's working on that ;) /s (jeez, your sense of humor folks...)
    • CamperBob2 7y ago
      Well, he is. For the Luddites in these threads, it's enough to cite the JWST as a reason to keep doing things the same old way, over and over, in space and on Earth. Of course, the reason why people who enjoy lecturing others about why something can't be done differently or shouldn't be done differently seem to gravitate to a site called "Hacker News" is one of those universal mysteries that can't be answered with a computer or a telescope.
• pretendscholar 7y ago
  How is that clear? What principles did you use?