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2020-06-11 Science & Technology

Already late as hell what's another year or more James Webb Space Telescope

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Posted by 3dc 2020-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 By the time it launches, there'll just be a few photons bopping around.

Posted by charger 2020-06-11 00:31|| 2020-06-11 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 This is of a piece with it would be impossible to build the Golden Gate Bridge or Hoover Dam today due to institutional rot and red tape mania. In cosmic terms, it wasn't that long ago they put the Hubble up, found a problem with the mirror and went up and fixed it. I'll take infinity as the under on when JWST gets deployed.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-11 08:44|| 2020-06-11 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 By the time it launches, there'll just be a few photons bopping around.

I was going to snark "Lighten up! The universe ain't going anywhere".
But on a longer timeline, charger is correct. And they'll probably be cold photons, too.

Posted by SteveS 2020-06-11 12:14|| 2020-06-11 12:14|| Front Page Top

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