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I want to thank those members who interacted with me a couple of years ago in two Optics Forum threads. They were @Drakkith, @hutchphd...

Replying to the questions put to you doesn't seem to be your forte, does it Line_112? I put four to you and you respond to just one. A...

Not if they're built in space. Which is the obvious next step, just as it was with optical telescopes.

It was gradual and not very clear-cut and took many decades to get to the position we're in now. It didn't happen overnight and it...

I got the impression that you think radio astronomy is meant to listen to alien radio shows. This is not even close to what it is meant...

Ok, this isn't about radio telescopes per se, but it's about the 'why bother about space if it doesn't affect us' attitude. In 2013 the...

That's true. This at least makes it a bit clearer what you're concerned about. But first, this is just one particular area of science...

That's not science. That's technology. As far as I can tell, it doesn't even depend on any discoveries at or near the frontier of...

Oh, so you think it's only worth studying objects if they were created by alien civilizations? That doesn't make sense to me...

Provided that we keep on building bigger and better radio telescopes, it's a win - win scenario, Line_112. If they detect no other...

I haven't written about science in general, but there are areas that are either unproductive or have negative side effects. For example...

Assuming someone decided "we don't need any confirmation of GR, why should we research such a natural, completely useless phenomena"...

One might well ask, does it make any sense to build new optical telescopes like the EELT? Or new space-based telescopes like the JWST...

So you think advancing science is stupid? Neither does understanding "the structure of the Universe", or indeed much scientific...

The German Wikipedia page lists five big scientific goals. I wouldn't call that negligible. We are a species that is curious and strives...