This is what can be done when the political will to do so is there
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
100x110m fully steerable, off-axis, active surface radio telescope.
Very nice, very productive.
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Too bad it had to be built in West Virginia.... Even Robert Byrd couldn't keep the National Radio Quiet Zone quiet, or the Green Bank atmosphere dry and transparent. But he sure could find funds.
RIP Senator Byrd.
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... then they could do what legislators from all over the country would like to do. It's pork, pure and simple. Astronomically it's a good thing, as opposed to a bad thing. For local stimulus, long term tech and science prospects, it's just one of many potential good things, many of which might have been better than this was.