My neighbor is an astrophysicist who works with James Webb Telescope data. His dream is to pitch Elon Musk to launch 2 more telescopes like the James Webb (although perhaps with more modern instrumentation). He is frustrated because he has to apply annually for telescope time and what he gets is very limited, and the JWST has broken and now out-of-date instruments 

He believes 
1. billionaires and especially Elon Musk should care about the origin of the universe and observing far space
2. A telescope is a perfect project for a billionaire because it allows them to cater to their megalomania and name it after themselves "It's fine he can name it DOGE I don't care"

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makes a lot of sense

James Webb was around $10B though, does elon even have that kind of liquid capital (x2) to deploy? I assumed the vast majority of his nw was $tsla

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sounds good then haha, would love to see musk yeet $1B into something like this

also glad to hear that you’re finding a cool crew to hang with in austin 💜

The assumption was it won’t cost $10B because we can “use a lot of the plans from last time”

Also initial JWST budget was only 1B. Project took 10yr and 10x budget 😑