This is not Elon’s idea, there was much clamoring in the scientific community to spread the research dollars instead of having one flagship suck up all the fund

This is not Elon’s idea, there was much clamoring in the scientific community to spread the research dollars instead of having one flagship suck up all the funding. It’s a big gamble to be able to see what JWST is designed to see, no number of smaller projects would match it, whether it was the best use of our taxdollars remains to be seen