When we are talking about "directly observing a part of space and time never seen before. Gazing into the epoch when the very first stars and galaxies formed, over 13.5 billion years ago." I guess 2000% over budget seems fine to me. Even if you are thinking only about profit, I think the discoveries will pay for themself.
Plus I think the budget didn't jump from 500 million to ten billion dollars in on day, project grew and budget grew with it, and someone had to approve it, we are talking about multinational project, so I think everything is well documented and well approved from people who knows the project well better than us.
I do agree with you that if that was military budget, I would think that something is really wrong.
Nice link, very informative, here's a funny excerpt :
"It [JSWT] is currently planned to be launched
in 2013 from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5
launch vehicle".
I couldn't find a publish date in the pdf but going off the url I'm going to guess that it was from 2008.
It's a little bit annoying finding information about jwst as info could potentially be old and out of date. Another document that I read mentioned using XML as the database format because XML was an emerging standard :S
"If
you and your family are more protected these days, it's because of all
those other people who made the right choice" I do not understand that from my point of view, what I heard what that vaccine didn't stop you from being contagious to other people.
I'm looking for an educated answer, I'm not anti-vaxx, far from it, I'm just curious about it.
Doesn't stop but reduces a lot. You are about 10x less likely to catch covid with a vaccine and about 2x less likely to spread it if you do.
Also if you compare a population of 100 million people who mostly have that 20x protection with one that doesn't and infect one person the the end result is one or two infections in the first case and about 100 million in the second.
