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JustAPerspective t1_ixjw4ie wrote

Why is progress being attributed to the tool rather than the people who used it?

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xmilehighgamingx t1_ixkkgxo wrote

If you ask me it’s a clever pr campaign, building a cult of personality around a telescope. Lol more realistically though a lot of people do a lot of stuff on the big science projects. Webb is an easier headline, kinda like Hubble rather than which ever list of university departments are cooperating for this particular project.

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Fernelz t1_ixqeb74 wrote

It also makes it easier to get the next telescope paid for when you can show everything it's done and how the country thinks about it.

I do agree though that more credit should be given to the scientists themselves

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JustAPerspective t1_ixr4fj6 wrote

So if they don't brag, no one will value their work?

Funny ol' world we got here.

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