> Are you seriously suggesting there is no other value in infrared light images I have never suggested that no. What I am suggesting, is that if you asked the

> Are you seriously suggesting there is no other value in infrared light images I have never suggested that no. What I am suggesting, is that if you asked the astronomy community wether they want to spend 3-5B$ into getting an exact copy of the JWST, or spend those 3-5B$ into a different telescope, with capabilities complimentary with the JWST, you would get an absolute overwhelming majority voting for the latter. We are still going to invest in future IR telescopes, but they won't be exact copy of JWST, they will either be complementary (see the future Roman space telescope) or will just be based on newer technologies and be more powerful. There is simply little value in getting twice the same instrument for that price tag. Why didn't we build another Hubble? The US build 18 of those for reconnaissance purpose but a single one for astronomy. Because the astronomy community never chose to spend their budget on that, instead they chose 4 new telescopes, with 4 different capabilities, all different from Hubble. That's where JWST comes from. They could have asked for 4 JWSTs instead, but they didn't because that would be terribly pointless.