Agree equipment fetishism is an adjacent risk, but it’s I think mistaken to conflate the value of instruments with the value of data they produce. If I had a Hubble level budget I wouldn’t build an exact clone of Hubble for eg. There’s primary value at the instrumentation level.
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I would rather get Hubble data that pay for top shelf personal telescopes any day. LHC Data > making your own linear accelerator. I think equipment fetishism creeps in often and muddied the waters of discovery by amateurs. Bleeding edge already publicly available...as data :)
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