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Good info here
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/webb-te ... -1.6295339Move over Hubble: Why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
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Should have bought two. Interferometry value and in-case it blows up on lift off. What was the logic of putting all eggs in one basket? Bean-counters?
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NASA is live now.
countdown ...with an hour..
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
countdown ...with an hour..
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
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Watched. Drama free.
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thing really moved off the pad - amazing acceleration
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Difficult part is bringing it back for a museum piece towards the end of the century.
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toward the end of the sun deaths perhaps/
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Bah, we'll catch it up when we move out.
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hehe ..you been reading too much Peter Hamilton
Good info here on what is coming ... two weeks of terror...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59138682
Good info here on what is coming ... two weeks of terror...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59138682
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Typical NASA inefficiency, spending 10 billion bucks on a gadget someone else built for next to nothing.
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I wonder if they will look at the earth as well...
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