Inside FAST, Soon to be the World's Biggest and Baddest Radio Telescope
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comPuerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory will soon be the world’s largest radio telescope no more. After years of planning, China has broken ground on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
This, and other useless programs, are completely okay. If you spread the money that they cost, among the people in the U.S. who are losing their homes and jobs, you wouldn't give any of them enough to save themselves. So get on with it.