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"Because pretty much everything that was possible to discover with earth based telescopes has been discovered."

That's outright wrong.

Is the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope there just to look pretty and reconfirm existing theories? Why build the Giant Magellan Telescope when apparently there's no more discoveries to make? Or the European Extremely Large Telescope? The Thirty Meter Telescope?




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