I've had my occasional "wouldn't it be funny..." moments, but oddly enough, for the telescope I can confidently say "no".
Even from purely an entertainment standpoint, the prospect of getting new images from deep space in unprecedented quality and resolution seems a lot more interesting to me than some drama and blame-shifting about billions of NASA dollars going up in smoke.
If you want the experience of a 20 year project dissolving into nothing, you can just rewatch the news coverage about Afghanistan from last summer.
But yeah, it would certainly fit into the string of bizarrely bad news of the last years. Maybe it feels so weird that some project actually appears to succeed for a change?
Even from purely an entertainment standpoint, the prospect of getting new images from deep space in unprecedented quality and resolution seems a lot more interesting to me than some drama and blame-shifting about billions of NASA dollars going up in smoke.
If you want the experience of a 20 year project dissolving into nothing, you can just rewatch the news coverage about Afghanistan from last summer.
But yeah, it would certainly fit into the string of bizarrely bad news of the last years. Maybe it feels so weird that some project actually appears to succeed for a change?