Why build expensive telescopes? Why do any science at all? Because we as a species are wired to progress. We are the petulent children of the universe that immediately asks "why?" when told we cannot have or do something.
The politics of space is largely centred around NASA which started as a dream and has become a beureaucratic white elephant.
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Date: 2010-05-18 10:08 pm (UTC)The politics of space is largely centred around NASA which started as a dream and has become a beureaucratic white elephant.