It’s a lot less when you consider that it took 10 years to develop, build and launch that thing. That’s 10 years of wages for technicians, scientists, programmers and all the associated jobs - secretaries, cleaning staff etc.
And that’s the beauty of funding science: the money goes straight back into the economic cycle and also funds the training and education of the young scientists who are learning the ropes. This thing has funded probably dozens of PhD’s and hundreds of master students.
That’s a hell of a lot of money for a single telescope.
I mean, right here you can see telescopes being sold for $49.99 on Amazon. It makes one question the entire budgetary process behind this Euclid scope.
EDIT: Not to mention that the Amazon one comes with a tripod, and as best I can tell from this article and Wikipedia, the Euclid scope doesn’t have anything of the sort. If we could get Josef Aschbacher here right now, I think that the no-tripod issue would definitely be an incisive question to raise with him.
That’s a hell of a lot of money for a single telescope.
It’s a lot less when you consider that it took 10 years to develop, build and launch that thing. That’s 10 years of wages for technicians, scientists, programmers and all the associated jobs - secretaries, cleaning staff etc.
And that’s the beauty of funding science: the money goes straight back into the economic cycle and also funds the training and education of the young scientists who are learning the ropes. This thing has funded probably dozens of PhD’s and hundreds of master students.
Oh f yeaaaah.
Searching for dork energy in mere 6 years is worth it :D
I could show them some dorks a lot sooner for a lot less money.
Such massive amounts of dorkery capable of bending any bright thought!!
Let me tell you about the marvel at L2 called JWST
I mean, right here you can see telescopes being sold for $49.99 on Amazon. It makes one question the entire budgetary process behind this Euclid scope.
EDIT: Not to mention that the Amazon one comes with a tripod, and as best I can tell from this article and Wikipedia, the Euclid scope doesn’t have anything of the sort. If we could get Josef Aschbacher here right now, I think that the no-tripod issue would definitely be an incisive question to raise with him.