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The survey participants were not informed of the cost at all. The JWST is absolutely worth ten billion dollars, but I'm not naive enough to think most Americans
by causi 4y ago
The survey participants were not informed of the cost at all. The JWST is absolutely worth ten billion dollars, but I'm not naive enough to think most Americans would agree with me, and I think that NASA contractors extracting twenty times their original grant from the taxpayers with no consequences is a major problem.
- daveslash 4y agoAgreed. I think a better headline would be "Most Americans still think Space is Cool as Fuck, still embody some childlike wonder about the universe, and are excited about JWST" But I bet that if you asked Americans "Was the $10bn cost of JWST worth it?" and then asked them to describe what the "it" was and re-iterated the first question after they qualified the it.... I doubt you'd get a "yes" twice in a row.