> Yes, just like approximately everything we've learned about cosmology in the last 100 years are completely derivative conclusions from relativity lmao.

OK, cool. Let's not do more of that, then. I just said that I could see the difference between the questions, and that they're not likely to get funding elsewhere, not that we should absolutely fund more black hole space telescopes.

> There's what, <5 things we've discovered that are not completely derivative over 100 years and billions of dollars of research?

No. Not in the same class as "are poor people sicker than rich people", or "does gravity cause things to fall down". Next question.