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Large telescope at Palomar Observatory, funded by Rockefeller

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Alex MacdonaldFreakonomics Radio · 683. In the New Space Race, Who Makes the Rules? · 5:56 · 31 Jul
…And so when you do those calculations, we find that projects like the Palomar Telescope, which was essentially funded by John D. Rockefeller's wealth, or the Mount Wilson Observatory, which was essentially funded by Carnegie's wealth, these are in the hundreds of millions to low billions of dollars, depending how you do that adjustment.…
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