07-27-2016, 08:14 AM
the last dinosaur of ground based optical telescopes
Yes, which point has been hammered many times -- it's a bit like saying "don't buy a computer today, everything in the store is obsolete, tomorrow's computers will be 10x the speed for 1/10th the price" -- which ignores the fact that sufficiently advanced technology is already available, and there's work that needs to be done today. Sometimes an existing, well-understood technology is better than waiting around -- future technologies will always be "better", if you don't mind not getting anything done "now".
Yes, which point has been hammered many times -- it's a bit like saying "don't buy a computer today, everything in the store is obsolete, tomorrow's computers will be 10x the speed for 1/10th the price" -- which ignores the fact that sufficiently advanced technology is already available, and there's work that needs to be done today. Sometimes an existing, well-understood technology is better than waiting around -- future technologies will always be "better", if you don't mind not getting anything done "now".