These are all one question really. And the gut response is, We can, we can.… When you come right down to it, what else is there to do—for us, for our children and grandchildren and future generations, for all humanity, for the natural world, for this blue dot of a planet in the unimaginable and humbling vastness of space and time that the James Webb Space Telescope, out beyond the orbit of the moon, is revealing? If we can engineer such marvels, and marvel at what we are seeing and learning as we look ever farther into space and thus further and further back in time to close to the beginning,
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