From Alasdair Cook
Valerie Jamieson believes that postponing NASA’s cosmology programme “could have devastating consequences for our understanding of the cosmos” (25 February, p 23).
I decline to be devastated by the idea. The cosmos has been there for a long time and the chances are that it will survive for later study even if NASA’s plans are delayed for a couple of hundred years. I would be much happier if the money and effort from that programme were devoted to ensuring that we will still be here in a couple of hundred years.
Torthorwald, Dumfriesshire, UK
