The future doesn’t look bright for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The project promises advancements in technology and science but has been beleaguered since inception. TMT supporters recently received more bad news. An external panel of experts published sobering insights, in a new report commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to evaluate the United States Extremely Large Telescope Program (US-ELT), including a proposal to fund development of the TMT in either Hawaii or the Canary Islands and Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert.