/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12401872]

anyone else really excited for the James Webb telescope next year?

[Anonymous No.12401876]

what the fuck is so great about telescopes anyway, they're just showing us light that's already near us

[Anonymous No.12401882]

>>12401876
more than that anon, also they produce some of the greatest pictures ever taken

[Anonymous No.12401888]

>>12401882
i'm pretty sure they' don't even come close to pics of some really hot bitch's ass or pussy

[Anonymous No.12401897]

>>12401888
why did you have to get digits for this

[Anonymous No.12401907]

>>12401897
ur a soience faggit

[Anonymous No.12401909]

>>12401872
will it launch next year though

[Anonymous No.12401913]

>>12401907
>>/sci/?task=search2&ghost=&search_filename=1578374970141
Holy fucking shit lmao you're obsessed

[Anonymous No.12401929]

>>12401913

[Anonymous No.12401960]

>>12401872
>next year?

[Anonymous No.12401963]

>>12401913

[Anonymous No.12402031]

>>12401872
I hope the thing blows up after lift off just for the sheer amount of butthurt it will cause.

It doesnt matter in the end because Starship will be taking much larger scopes into space by the time JWST gets on the pad.

[Anonymous No.12402213]

>>12401872
absolutly.

[Anonymous No.12402218]

Sorry OP, I'm too jaded about it to be excited.

[Anonymous No.12402406]

>>12402213
Chad Webb vs virgin geostationary loo.

[Anonymous No.12402440]

>>12401872
>next year
lmao they will still be saying that a decade from now.

[Anonymous No.12402738]

>>12402406
Hubble isn't in geostationary orbit though.

[Anonymous No.12402953]

>>12402031
>It doesnt matter in the end because Starship will be taking much larger scopes into space by the time JWST gets on the pad.
This is delusional. Even if JWST were delayed anther 3 years, that's not enough time to manufacture even a modest performance telescope. In reality larger telescope won't happen until at least 2040, before then NASA and ESA literally don't have the money.

[Anonymous No.12403002]

>>12402953
That's more a comment on the sad and embarrassing state of NASA and ESA rather than an invalidation of anything I posted.

[Anonymous No.12403041]

>>12403002
You're even more deluded if you think some new agency or company is going to appear out-of-nowhere in that that time and build the telescope without any prior experience.

[Anonymous No.12403089]

>2020: JWST when?
>next year
>2021: so?
>WHAT PART OF "NEXT YEAR" DO YOU FAIL TO UNDERSTAND

[Anonymous No.12403203]

>>12403041
Again, space agencies being jokes doesnt impact the point of my original post.

Stop being obtuse.

[Anonymous No.12403323]

>>12403203
Your original claim is delusional. Nobody is being obtuse, you're just living in a fantasy land if you think it's going to change that quickly.

[Anonymous No.12403332]

>>12403323
Different anon but what happens if JWST does fail to launch? Is the scientific community going to continue to wait indefinitely or will someone decide to ignore NASA and do something on their own, using SpaceX as a means of getting into orbit? Maybe they'll conclude that having a dozen smaller less sophisticated space telescopes will still be better than one mega complicated telescope that never gets off the ground.

[Anonymous No.12403406]

>>12403332
>or will someone decide to ignore NASA and do something on their own
And who do you think has the money to do that exactly? NASA gets the vast majority of government funding for astronomy in the US, what the NSF gives out to non-NASA-astronomy is about a fifth of that. Then only a small fraction goes to actual researchers, the majority goes to funding infrastructure. NSF is so broke they couldn't cough up 200 million to buy a stake in TMT. There is no commercial market for this either.

>Maybe they'll conclude that having a dozen smaller less sophisticated space telescopes will still be better than one mega complicated telescope that never gets off the ground.
What people want is not the problem. The problem is cash.

[Anonymous No.12403589]

>>12401913
LMAO the mods got massively butthrut too