kent_white Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Sorry 344 - and apparently they're called 'single point failures' in engineering parlance. We really are a remarkable species when we set our minds to something! https://www.google.com/amp/s/manyworlds.space/2021/08/05/the-many-ways-the-james-webb-space-telescope-could-fail/amp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 21, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 26 minutes ago, kent_white said: Sorry 344 - and apparently they're called 'single point failures' in engineering parlance. We really are a remarkable species when we set our minds to something! https://www.google.com/amp/s/manyworlds.space/2021/08/05/the-many-ways-the-james-webb-space-telescope-could-fail/amp/ Ten billion dollars. Kinell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Ten billion dollars. Kinell. A lot of money - but its relative. The US spend $766 billion a year on their military alone..... This might answer some of life's fundamental questions. I know what I'd rather the money was spent on! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 21, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, kent_white said: A lot of money - but its relative. The US spend $766 billion a year on their military alone..... This might answer some of life's fundamental questions. I know what I'd rather the money was spent on! 🙂 Unfortunately, if we don't keep a viable military, some bugger will fancy having a pop, and then there'd be no space telescopes. I learned the other day too, that the majority of nhs funding comes from general taxation of companies/people etc. The arms manufacturers here will be contributing a large amount to that effort. Just think, every time the navy launches a cruise missile, or throws a plane off a carrier, that's another load of funding coming your way!😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted December 21, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Ten billion dollars. Kinell. Ten billion dollars that should be spent on Earth, instead of jizzing it into space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted December 21, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 21, 2021 Can you imagine what that would do for our Pork Markets!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted December 21, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 21, 2021 3 hours ago, kent_white said: Sorry 344 - and apparently they're called 'single point failures' in engineering parlance. We really are a remarkable species when we set our minds to something! https://www.google.com/amp/s/manyworlds.space/2021/08/05/the-many-ways-the-james-webb-space-telescope-could-fail/amp/ A telescope that will look back in time to the beginning of the universe Fuck me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 12:20pm tomorrow for the launch 🤞🤞🤞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 24, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2021 1 minute ago, kent_white said: 12:20pm tomorrow for the launch 🤞🤞🤞 Really? Being pulled by 50,000 reindeer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 9 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Really? Being pulled by 50,000 reindeer! I've checked with NORAD and he should be well clear of the launch site by that time! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 (edited) Another load of old tripe to explain deficit holes. Captain Kirk went into space - did he bollocks. No-one has. Now man is going to Mars - horseshit. Because they'd spend billions for someone to twat about hitting golf balls. Some people are so gullible. We took a photo of a black hole that's a billion billion billion light years away - but nobody's allowed to see it. All light escapes from them so impossible to capture an image. Those Mars photos are just the Jordanian desert. What a crock of bullshit. Space is more radioactive than Reatktor 2 at Chernoble yet so-called first man on the moon Gerald Buzz Alfred is still walking about and snotting people at 101 years of age - no ill effects at all. Bollocks. Yet real stuff like yetis and their North American cousin the Sasquatch are denied. Edited December 24, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol_BWFC Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 Is it on YouTube? Will put it on for my 5 y-o, who loves space rockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonk Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) Yep @Jol_BWFC Edited December 25, 2021 by Gonk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 So far so good. I bet there were some twitchy arses in that launch control room! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted December 25, 2021 Members Share Posted December 25, 2021 41 minutes ago, kent_white said: So far so good. I bet there were some twitchy arses in that launch control room! What’s the dealio with it Kent? How powerful is it? What we supposed to be able to see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted December 25, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rudy said: What’s the dealio with it Kent? How powerful is it? What we supposed to be able to see? The Big Bang. Though it’s on E4 every day at 6pm and costs a lost less than £10bill And Kaley Cuoco is in that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rudy said: What’s the dealio with it Kent? How powerful is it? What we supposed to be able to see? 100 times more powerful than Hubble. The universe is about 14 billion years old. And James Webb should be able to look back to what was happening about 100 million years after the big bang. It should also be able to take a much closer look at exo planets that we think might be good candidates for life elsewhere in the universe. That's two of the things it's 'designed to see' - but just like Hubble - the best stuff will be the things we've no idea about that we discover thanks to the telescope. The Hubble Deep Field picture was 5-10 billion light years away. And it's the most amazing picture that I've ever seen bar none. JWT is designed to see about 13.7 billion light years away and in much better detail - but in infrared rather than visible light. It's phenomenal - that's if it opens up properly and works. 351 hurdles to get past yet though. To think we only had the first successful flight in 1903. 120 years on and we should be advanced enough to actually see the birth of the universe, or at least the first stars and galaxies. Blows my mind. It can also be used for spying on alien's tits to a decent resolution anywhere within the milky way. Answering one of the most philosophically important questions which has vexed our species since we were old enough to gaze up at the stars..... HBAAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted December 25, 2021 Members Share Posted December 25, 2021 36 minutes ago, kent_white said: 100 times more powerful than Hubble. The universe is about 14 billion years old. And James Webb should be able to look back to what was happening about 100 million years after the big bang. It should also be able to take a much closer look at exo planets that we think might be good candidates for life elsewhere in the universe. That's two of the things it's 'designed to see' - but just like Hubble - the best stuff will be the things we've no idea about that we discover thanks to the telescope. The Hubble Deep Field picture was 5-10 billion light years away. And it's the most amazing picture that I've ever seen bar none. JWT is designed to see about 13.7 billion light years away and in much better detail - but in infrared rather than visible light. It's phenomenal - that's if it opens up properly and works. 351 hurdles to get past yet though. To think we only had the first successful flight in 1903. 120 years on and we should be advanced enough to actually see the birth of the universe, or at least the first stars and galaxies. Blows my mind. It can also be used for spying on alien's tits to a decent resolution anywhere within the milky way. Answering one of the most philosophically important questions which has vexed our species since we were old enough to gaze up at the stars..... HBAAT? So what you’re saying is we’ll be able to see this lass soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Rudy said: So what you’re saying is we’ll be able to see this lass soon? We can only hope. But it would be worth it at just over 3.3 billion dollars per jubbly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted December 25, 2021 Members Share Posted December 25, 2021 8 minutes ago, kent_white said: We can only hope. But it would be worth it at just over 3.3 billion dollars per jubbly! In all seriousness it’s absolutely mind blowing I can’t get my head round it. Getting into space is due to marijuana. It made more sense 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted December 25, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted December 25, 2021 54 minutes ago, kent_white said: The Hubble Deep Field picture was 5-10 billion light years away. And it's the most amazing picture that I've ever seen bar none. I’ve never seen this before. It’s quite impressive… or it’s a close up of a high-gloss kitchen worktop under bright lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted December 25, 2021 Members Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 minute ago, MickyD said: I’ve never seen this before. It’s quite impressive… or it’s a close up of a high-gloss kitchen worktop under bright lights. It’s absolutely unbelievable that photo. It’s quite an injustice to even call it a photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 13 minutes ago, Rudy said: It’s absolutely unbelievable that photo. It’s quite an injustice to even call it a photo Mind-blowing! And hopefully just a little taster of what JWT might be able to show us. I've got a semi already! 😁 This website is a cool way to follow the journey too! https://www.facebook.com/382651265048/posts/10159487123335049/?substory_index=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted December 25, 2021 Share Posted December 25, 2021 1 minute ago, kent_white said: Mind-blowing! And hopefully just a little taster of what JWT might be able to show us. I've got a semi already! 😁 This website is a cool way to follow the journey too! https://www.facebook.com/382651265048/posts/10159487123335049/?substory_index=0 Sorry - meant this one! https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?s=09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted December 25, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 25, 2021 Imagine Just imagine JWT spotted another universe, coming towards us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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