Funny that the cost is divided by the development time rather than the operational time to make it lower. They not only made 25 years a normal time to build something, but if it took 1000 years, it would have been free. It has enough fuel for 10 years of observations, then it's thrown away. Combine that with the least likeable Vox host interviewing & the lion kingdom just can't drink the koolaid.

In hindsight, the large hadron collider was another boondoggle. It was built to discover the higgs boson & then it was done. There are some programs to keep using it either for lesser known basic research or to keep people employed. It's been the century of the expendable science experiment.

Could a space telescope big enough to utilize the size of a starship ever be built? Probably not. A small space telescope would be cheaper to launch on it, but a starship isn't going to make bigger space telescopes affordable. Something must be done about large telescopes taking 25 years to build. It would be possible to service a small space telescope if a starship was built specifically with a robot arm & a payload bay that could be opened & closed reliably enough for human rating. Building a starship just for that instead of its mane role of launching satellites & transporting people to other planets would be hugely expensive.



The lion reservoir stopped reporting on Dec 22. It's probably 85% while the downstream one is filling rapidly.

Oroville & Folsom are the most publicized reservoirs, but the lion kingdom only gets water from there during the driest years. They both feed the sacramento river. It's more likely when the lion kingdom ever needs to exercise its water rights, there won't be any water.

Lots of demons in that piece.

Finally realized gootube star Aimee Nolte went to BYU during the same time the lion kingdom was there. She could have easily crossed paths with the mane, but would have been revolted by the sound of lion paws banging out classical music.