>build 10 billion dollar telescope
>get results
>have to pay hundreds of billions for salaries/healthcare/retirement of researches and academics to cope and seethe for 5 years of politics before the evidence kicks out the old guard and another 5 for new theories to be worked on
>...
>build new telescope for another 10 billion
>everything they did was retarded and wrong
>another decade of useless politics and speculation
>cycle repeats ad infinitum.

Why nots just fire 98% of the astrophysics department and build a bigger telescope? or at least put the money towards materials research to make that possible.

With all the dark energy/matter nonsense, I find it hard to believe it's not a sympathetic jobs program for spergs and autists.