05-25-2016, 05:46 AM
You beat me to it, Mike. It is not the telescope's responsibility to help anyone in particular, it helps everyone by advancing scientific knowledge. Gypsy's posts keep returning to the "but what's in it for me" theme but surely even you can realize how having a $1,400,000,000 project on your doorstep will help and not hurt the local economy and everyone in it.