Half of each. While “Tom’s do-it-yourself Space Telescope” isn’t going to be available in Walmart today, the companies that NASA contracts with for this kind of work shouldn’t be allowed to leave the state of manufacture and assembly in such a way as to prevent cost-effective follow-up on a product.

I....

I’ll ask for the Impossible or Beyond burgers in that case...

And if you happen to create a rainbow with your garden hose while watering your plants?

Well that’s the problem there, not keeping a well-crafted blueprint for any new space telescopes and the components, so that things won’t need to be researched again from the ground up.

I want to be $1.7 billion poor too... 🤣

Ahhh, but that was the development back in the 1980s. The tech is developed. He wouldn’t have to do much to redevelop that line plus extras, so it wouldn’t be the same costs.

Rather than him refurbishing Hubble, it seems almost like he could have something built, that while not matching Webb, could certain outperform Hubble, for what would be almost trivial financing for him?

It’s very useful for siphoning money from rich bank accounts into a certain company.

For that skye-high price, that’s all you get?

So I have to ask genuinely if this guy is mentally impaired?  Or was he just stupidly drunk or high?

Alas that the Marmon Motor Car Company didn’t set up an additional factory in Utah.

Hmmm... so now that Biden has taken an action AGAINST Beijing, is it time for Faux News, NewSmacks and Breathbarf and other right-wing hate media to start cheerleading for Xi’s China?

Sometimes it’s necessary to see the idiot troll, but once exposed, they can be buried again.

What’s up with the conservo-trolls?

Well, we heard it here.

It’s why you don’t want right-wingers in charge anywhere, whether Israel, the U.S., Russia or Iran.

Faux News is a bad gateway drug.

Where’s Ralph Nader’s heir?  Trends like this were why anti-lemon laws came to be a few decades ago.

This was a misunderstanding, it wasn’t $277 for not putting gas in the car, it was $277 for having Taco Bell and passing too much gas in the car.