The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Tripamang
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All the more reason to build another JWST? Kind of my point that all that tech they developed is just shelved. Long term that cooling tech might be pretty lucrative for building super conductor computers in space.
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Furry
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Gov is usually a lot stricter than that, and is usually quite the miser with lots of avenues of recourse against a bad actor in a contract. Most of those wasteful contracts you hear about are just spook cover stories. This is the rare legitimate major overrun I think. The project ran into a lot of problems, but managed to work it's way through. In the end, it's a magnificent achievement, so I'm excited to see what it produces.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Once Starship gets going we won't need to build such a complex dinosaur of a device.
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Tripamang
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Why not? In what world would it not be 10x as big and even more complex? If they can apply the same unfolding techniques to make it even bigger why wouldn't you do it?
Unless the thing is fabbed in space and the fairing size doesn't matter I don't see things changing much.
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Big Phoenix
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I assume he means the rube goldberg folding mechanism for the mirror and sun shield. iirc that was heavily dictated by the constraints of the launch vehicles available when it was first being designed.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Pretty much. Assuming Starship performs anything like it is planned to, access to space will be far cheaper and it will be possible to construct things in space using multiple missions if need be at a reasonable price.
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Gravel
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Zindan
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They said it was something between a nova and supernova; brighter than a nova, but not as much as a supernova.
Void
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BrutulTM
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Or maybe a Champagne Supernova in the sky. Where were you while we were gettin' high?
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Big Phoenix
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In yet another example of how insanely dog shit "journalism" is, remember that story about NASA hiring a few dozen religious types? All bullshit. Some clickbaiter whose about to put out a book put out a story in some UK publication about a 6 year old NASA "study" that involved a few religious types. Once it was published "journalist" started playing telephone like retarded 5 year olds;
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Brahma
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Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope - NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.
www.nasa.gov
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