I want to be really careful of survivorship bias here. So I imagine with the James Webb telescope while there were setbacks, they did actually have the monkey solved. They knew that they could launch it into space. But sometimes when the world is yelling at you to stop and you ignore them, that's no longer a virtue. Then it's folly.
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