The James Webb Telescope is out latest achievement and it once again proves that left the hell alone by politicians, we are at our absolute best when out of their reach.
Ego is always the problem. True collaboration depends on stepping back before stepping forward. (Incidentally, no color TV for us; we had to make do with Uncle Dicky's minuscule black and white set, which we borrowed for the occasion. It came in a massive mahogany chest twenty times the size of the tube itself, and my dad must have had to lug it half way across the English Midlands to set it up in time.)
Ego is always the problem. True collaboration depends on stepping back before stepping forward. (Incidentally, no color TV for us; we had to make do with Uncle Dicky's minuscule black and white set, which we borrowed for the occasion. It came in a massive mahogany chest twenty times the size of the tube itself, and my dad must have had to lug it half way across the English Midlands to set it up in time.)