[Cthulhu_]

I want to venture that 1000 years is pessimistic. I just hope governments or private entities open up their wallets to build and launch more and better telescopes.

I'm reading the whole JWST project is estimated to cost $10 billion. That's about 4.4 overpriced Twitters, 77 US Department of Defense budgets (just for 2023), and 11.7 Facebook annual revenues.

We have the technology and the means, what's lacking now is the will.

[mkl]

Your maths is upside down, I think. $10 billion is 10/44 ≈ 0.227 overpriced Twitters, 10/816.7 ≈ 0.0122 US DoD budgets, etc.