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Inside the atmosphere is a terrible place to use telescopes, anyway, so we should use those launches to also get more telescopes into space.
by ghusbands 5y ago
Inside the atmosphere is a terrible place to use telescopes, anyway, so we should use those launches to also get more telescopes into space.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThis is overly simplistic. Adaptive optics solves a lot atmospheric issues. There are also entire categories of telescopes that it simply makes more sense to keep on earth. Space telescopes are cool and all, but making a space version of something isn't necessarily better, even in a future with rapidly declining launch costs.