<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">You make excellent points. Why can't existing telescopes be upgraded? Why start from scratch in another location? Wouldn't things be much clearer with a telescope in space? Can't the one we have now be used for what you think it should be used for? I just cannot believe that there is no other location in the entire world that fits the needs for that telescope. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:08 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 4:24 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div></span><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Everybody wants their own toys. They don't want to have to borrow something from the French department, even though the French dept. can easily share the thing. So - how do we know that the cancelled observatory is really needed? Why can't they buy some time on another's scope? I can hardly imagine that this is holding up the march of science.</i></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></span><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Bill we're not talking about toys or school supplies, we're talking about half the universe, and a telescope that could see things 9 times dimmer that anything we can see now. There isn't a comparable next generation telescope planned for the Northern Hemisphere that's even on the drawing boards, nor is there likely to be any now that the only place such a huge telescope can be used to full advantage is off limits due to a army of marching morons.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>
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