For now. Do the Elon Musk analysis from first principles. The future of astronomy is clearly outside of Earth's gravity well and atmosphere.

Yes, but the current budgets clearly are not.

He's working on that ;)

/s (jeez, your sense of humor folks...)

Well, he is. For the Luddites in these threads, it's enough to cite the JWST as a reason to keep doing things the same old way, over and over, in space and on Earth.

Of course, the reason why people who enjoy lecturing others about why something can't be done differently or shouldn't be done differently seem to gravitate to a site called "Hacker News" is one of those universal mysteries that can't be answered with a computer or a telescope.

How is that clear? What principles did you use?

Because access to space is insanely expensive.

Don't fight the people who are trying to fix this.

Also dangerous and inflexible.