Nasa just completed building 8.7 billion Webb Space telescope

KONY

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• Nov 8, 2016

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Billion *Dollar.

This is easily the best news I have read in weeks. Can't wait too see the images that come out of this thing. An actual great use of our tax dollars .

https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/07/nasa-has-completed-the-8-7-billion-james-webb-space-telescope/

Sounds like they are going to begin testing it now. I wonder how they do that.

 

Pinball Wizard

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• Nov 8, 2016

• #2

I'm always happy when billion year old carbon does something constructive. :yay:

 

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wolfhoundaddy

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• Nov 8, 2016

• #3

Pretty cool. I go to Nasa picture of the day web site for my morning reading. Thanks for smart people!!

 

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brown_thumb

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• Nov 8, 2016

• #4

That's extremely cool!!

 

GMT

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• Nov 8, 2016

• #5

Great, some little white lights are now a bit easier to see for about 3 people. I'm so bored with massive projects that let a few shareholders profit from the public purse under the disguise of benefiting mankind.

 

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igrowone

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• Nov 8, 2016

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i'm down with this next step on the cosmic journey
hubble showed us fantastic things, webb will likely go even further

 

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brown_thumb

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• Nov 8, 2016

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With a more accurate reflector providing 7x the light gathering capability it should be spectacular. I do question the $8.7 billion dollar price tag. That seems awfully fishy to me.

 

FirstTracks

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• Nov 9, 2016

• #8

space lasers.....


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...just sayin

 

PDX Dopesmoker

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• Nov 9, 2016

• #9

igrowone said:

i'm down with this next step on the cosmic journey
hubble showed us fantastic things, webb will likely go even further

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I agree, but blowing that dough so a few eggheads can get a slightly better look at high redshift galactic nuclei isn't that way I'd have gone with that money. I wanna sent a robot construction crew to Mars to build me a greenhouse. Do you have any idea how big a pot plant you could grow in low gravity?

 

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igrowone

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• Nov 9, 2016

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PDX Dopesmoker said:

I agree, but blowing that dough so a few eggheads can get a slightly better look at high redshift galactic nuclei isn't that way I'd have gone with that money. I wanna sent a robot construction crew to Mars to build me a greenhouse. Do you have any idea how big a pot plant you could grow in low gravity?

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yeah, some things it will do are going to be mundane
some things will be wild! and impossible to predict

 

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St. Phatty

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• Nov 9, 2016

• #11

I wonder how many space scientists keep bongs near their desks - at work.

Maybe now Cal Tech can Go Rasta