"It's of no use whatsoever[...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right." - Heinrich Hertz about the discovery of radio waves.
They are still building new telescopes. ESO is currently building the largest one in history. It's very easy to complain that funding should go to something more immediately applicable but in the long term there is nothing that comes close to the potential to revolutionise technology than fundamental physics research.
"It's of no use whatsoever[...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right." - Heinrich Hertz about the discovery of radio waves.
They are still building new telescopes. ESO is currently building the largest one in history. It's very easy to complain that funding should go to something more immediately applicable but in the long term there is nothing that comes close to the potential to revolutionise technology than fundamental physics research.
its either gonna be completely useless or absolutely mindblowing in terms of both applications and scientific knowledge
no in between