/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11049825
It needs a lot of reflection.

>>11049825
The project manager is James Webb. He is very bad at managing in his current state.

>>11049825
>Most complicated device to be sent into outer space
>Just hurry up and launch it!

>>11049825
>leave a comment on their latest youtube video how they are long behind schedule
>gets deleted 15 minutes later
Im still laughing,at this point it looks more like a money laundering operation and less like a scientific one.

>>11049825
the downward spiral:
"This thing is pretty expensive so we need to do a lot of extra testing and design studies to make sure it doesn't break"
"all this extra engineering and testing is making this thing even more expensive"
"this thing's REALLY expensive, we'd better do extra testing"

>>11049928
Murphy's law states this thing will either explode on the launch pad or get the Hubble syndrome.

>>11049943
>explode on the launch pad
I will buy and open the finest champagne if it happens

pic related

>>11049825
it's really fucking complicated and the suppliers have been pretty shit. Space telescopes are some of the most complicated things we make. In fact X-ray telescopes were even thought to be impossible before we made them.
>>11049928
Oh whoops look like some parts don't actually work. WHAT! A critical part doesn't actually live up to what the suppliers said it would and will royally fuck everything up? That happened with the cryopump. They also found LOOSE BOLTS during testing too.

>>11050125
>WHAT! A critical part doesn't actually live up to what the suppliers said it would and will royally fuck everything up? That happened with the cryopump. They also found LOOSE BOLTS during testing too.
Knowing how government contracts work, that vendor probably received glowing reviews and a recommendation for it.

>>11049859

>>11049825
Looks like a factory run by ninjas creating a giant shuriken for their giant mecha

>>11049859

Why does NASA shit on SpaceX for a delay when it doesn't compare to Webb at all?

>>11049859
kek

>>11050037
>I want to watch the world burn and have a few lulz instead of look forward to the future

>>11049825
if they jus had SpaceX do it, it would have been done along time ago at 10% of the current cost

>>11051241
>10% of the current cost
and quality

>>11050057
>xkcd is based for once
These truly are the end times

when spaceflight is cheap won't we be able to just huck hilariously sized mirrors into l3 or whatever that shit on this rube goldberg machine pos

>>11051745
yes but the telescope predates the new space revolution by like a decade

>>11049825
I have a bad feeling about it. This shit is gonna break or something

>JAMES
*CLAP*
>WEBB
*CLAP*
SPACE
>TELESCOPE
*CLAP*
>WILL
*CLAP*
>NEVER
*CLAP*
>FLY

>>11049859
nice