[wumpus]

To comment on this a little more, it would be way out of our budget to abandon our telescopes on earth and do it all from space.

[mjevans]

Still thinking inside the box, and the gravity well.

The cost effective solution is to move manufacturing to micro-G environments. The Moon might do as a good baby step, followed by robots in the belt.

[numpad0]

Yes. Space manufacturing is the way. Launching everything from down here is madness, constructing telescopes in high lands down here is madness too, those are local minimas. We should be laser 3D printing bunch of self replicating cylinder objects out of Lunar regolith. I don't know why we're not doing it if it weren't for the sole possibility that US Space Force don't have intercept capability for such tubes gone rogue.

[wumpus]

What a great idea! Can you point at a concrete explanation of how it is affordable with astronomy's budget?