1st image of James Webb Space telescope(JWST)

[Morrus]

And it went off without a hitch from what we can tell. An absolute marvel of human engineering, a new wonder of the world.

But it’s not in the world!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

It is many, but they are miniscule.

A typical person, at that density, would have (if I kept my powers of ten straight) nearly twice the radius of the Sun. You'd be... stretched thin, indeed.

But can a person really still be called typical if it's stretched so thin that has nearly twice the radius of the sun? Some might consider him to have an over-inflated ego.

 

[Dioltach]

though the pics are gorgeous, for me is the greater wonder of how the telescope was installed. Dozens of interconnected system that had to work absolutely seemlessly. Several stages of unloading and unfolding the telescope, in which every single peace had to work within issue, or the telescope would fail.

And it went off without a hitch from what we can tell. An absolute marvel of human engineering, a new wonder of the world.

And I can't even get my printer to work properly.

 

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[freyar]

I can't wait until they point the JWST at some nearby exoplanets.

As a matter of fact, they already did! One of the first JWST science results released was a chemical analysis of an exoplanet atmosphere.

 

[Horwath]

As a matter of fact, they already did! One of the first JWST science results released was a chemical analysis of an exoplanet atmosphere.

awesome,
But, I think that everyone waits for analysis of rocky worlds in goldilocks zone.

 

[reelo]

though the pics are gorgeous, for me is the greater wonder of how the telescope was installed. Dozens of interconnected system that had to work absolutely seemlessly. Several stages of unloading and unfolding the telescope, in which every single peace had to work within issue, or the telescope would fail.

And it went off without a hitch from what we can tell. An absolute marvel of human engineering, a new wonder of the world.

800 years ago, the rich and the educated planned and funded projects (gothic cathedrals) the completion of which they knew would not happen within their own lifetime. They did so regardlessly, and we still marvel at the results of their efforts almost a millennium later.
Why don't we (society, politicians) have the guts anymore to do such things? Tackle something so big it exceeds the sum of its individual parts? It saddens me that our thinking has shrunk so much...

 

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uh-oh

 

[Dioltach]

Is someone playing Star Wars d6?

 

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