/sci/ - Science & Math

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewfrancis/2015/06/11/the-problem-with-naming-observatories-for-bigots/?sh=12d38954695b

>Webb wasn't alone in persecuting LGBT people: it was government policy, just another brick in the closet wall. And Webb's NASA in the '60s wasn't a bastion of equality.
>Women were deliberately excluded from being astronauts, with some male astronauts like John Glenn actively testifying against their inclusion
>Webb also aided with the fallout over NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun's Nazi past, including his role as an SS officer.

What do we learn from the JWST, or looking at the universe through infrared specifically.

just put that shit in space already

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i've heard that the james webb telescope can see the atmosphere of a planet and using that data determine if a planet might have life. eg increased oxygen increased methane. so riddle me this. earth has had a biosignature for what 3 billion years? that means if a civilization was at our tech level for around 3 billion years now it could spot that earth has life on it. so would an alien civilization be able to see the life on earth, and if they did how would they get here and what would they do if they did. like leave a marker for a future potential civ. or perhaps colonize?