Finally. It's About F**king Time. (WEBB: 25 Dec 2021)

[Jalpha]

Animations are sufficient for me until we get the first images taken by JWST. It's going to be a long six months.

[MadNomad]

give it to the scrap metal collectors so they can sell it for a few dollars at some junkyard

[mvgulik]

I take it your exercising your right to say stupid things.

What would the world look like if everyone was that stupid ...
- We would probably still think the Earth is flat, due to not knowing what a curve is.
- We would probably not have any technological stuff/knowledge, or even know what farming is.
Ergo: We would probably still be running around, hunting animals with rocks, dressed in raw animal hides (or not dressed at all of course)

Nevermind letting a space telescope make a selfie of itself.
Fuck, we would not even know what a space telescope is.


A selfie ... we would know about those !

... Prehistoric Olympic selfie competition ?

[MadNomad]

perhaps you are just a bit too rigid and serious on this XD

[mvgulik]

You already stated you think JWSP is junk 2 time.
One would think one time would suffice.
(even a good joke becomes stale if repeated to fast)

Besides, I find it fun to dress-up some (although minor) news to cover something completely different.
So I guess a thanks is in order.

[mvgulik]

Cool. Webb stopped seeing double.


Webb Mirror Alignment Continues Successfully (25 Feb)

[shubla]

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Worth every penny

[mvgulik]

Let me fix that for you.

[sarcasm]Worth every penny[/sarcasm]

[Zentetsuken]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60771210

james webb already taking focused pictures and exceeding wildest expectations

yay science

[mvgulik]

A complete side note: new thoughts have been going into faster than light travel, and how it might actually be feasible, so this telescope becomes even more important if we don't want to blindly travel years to some other star and find no planets more habitable than Mars or the Moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZset72bHLI

Some recent video about the general problem with 'anything' faster-the-light.
A bit of a downer, although it also still leaves a little(tiny) bit of wiggle room on the FTL subject.
Why Going Faster-Than-Light Leads to Time Paradoxes (25min. 3 Apr 2022 ... spacetime diagram knowledge required)