Comments on: Chinese engineers and astronomers fight over new telescope design https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-engineers-and-astronomers-fight-over-new-telescope-design/ Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-engineers-and-astronomers-fight-over-new-telescope-design/#comment-1006823 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:56:46 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=47176#comment-1006823 The opening sentence of the linked article is misleading. It says that the division is among the astronomers, but the second sentence gets it right, that it is between the engineers and the astronomers.

From the article: “The fundamental disagreement, according to Chen, is ‘whether a large science project should be technically or scientifically oriented.’”

Being an engineer, [Sarcasm Alert] I understand that a science project is all about advancing the technology, not at all about the actual science. That is why it is called a science project, not a development project. [End Sarcasm]

This is what happens when you let central planners make the decisions rather than having the users decide what is needed. You get what they want, not what you needed.

This kind of adverse centralized decision making is happening all around the world. Just ask Charlie Gard’s parents.

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