<div dir="auto">On Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 5:47 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">there have been 3 responses and all of them criticized me for being too logical and all of them empathised with the ignorant anti-science mob, not one of them empathised with the astronomers who not only could no longer do their work of finding out more about the universe but actually feared for their lives.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Think of the responses instead as pragmatic.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is desired to get these telescopes in place.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However, that can't happen without dealing with local politics. Ignoring them and attempting to order construction has been attempted, and failed. That this approach should not have failed is not worth further discussion: it did fail, and would fail again if attempted again. That is the situation that must be dealt with.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Given that this must be dealt with, it would be more useful to contemplate ways of dealing with it and getting the telescope built.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Or finding alternatives to building the telescope there. I suggest in orbit or on the Moon - as difficult as that is, it may be simpler than dealing with those politics, would give a better result, and might even be cheaper.)</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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