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It's foolish to use this as evidence that the US is in decline when it was the US the contributed $8-9B and other space agencies <1B to the brand new James Webb
by aeternum 4y ago
It's foolish to use this as evidence that the US is in decline when it was the US the contributed $8-9B and other space agencies <1B to the brand new James Webb Space Telescope. The majority of it was also built in the US.
Why spend money on a terrestrial telescope when there are significant issues with atmospheric distortion and many other sources of interference?
The US could easily rebuild this old telescope if it wanted to, it just doesn't make sense to do it.
- beecafe 4y agoRadio telescopes don't care about the atmosphere. And only Arecibo was powerful enough to send messages for SETI, or do radar imaging of solar systen bodies.