James Webb Telescope

[Mike Helland]

JWST Where is Webb?

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's pretty cool.

 

[Puppycow]

Two hours to go!!

Here's a livestream from Launch Pad Astronomy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKzZ89N2Ks

Not much to see yet though. Apparently the coverage begins about an hour before launch.

 

[Puppycow]

JWST Where is Webb?

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

That's pretty cool.

That's interesting. I'll keep that tab open once it launches.

 

[Samson]

Two hours to go!!

Here's a livestream from Launch Pad Astronomy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKzZ89N2Ks

Not much to see yet though. Apparently the coverage begins about an hour before launch.

Just before midnight NZ
This is amazing for chrissakes

 

[Steve]

I have a friend who is a serious historian, but likes evidence. He knows the big bang is nonsense because you can't get something from nothing.

The telescope is to see the big bang.

1. Historian does not = cosmologist.

2. You have an amazingly, almost moronically, simplistic view of the purpose and uses of the Webb.

 

[Samson]

1. Historian does not = cosmologist.

2. You have an amazingly, almost moronically, simplistic view of the purpose and uses of the Webb.

Americans do not do irony, but some nations do, lol

 

[Steve]

Americans do not do irony, but some nations do, lol

Is this in any way connected to my post that you quoted? Appears that it is not.

 

[Samson]

Is this in any way connected to my post that you quoted? Appears that it is not.

Yes it is.
I responded to a post by referring to an actual person. The irony is embedded in knowing this telescope can't resolve the big bang.

 

[Puppycow]

Here's the official NASA feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM


Launch is about 20 minutes away.

 

[Steve]

Yes it is.
I responded to a post by referring to an actual person. The irony is embedded in knowing this telescope can't resolve the big bang.

What do you mean by *resolve* the big bang?

What relevance did your reference to Americans have to my post?

What qualifications does your *friend*, a *serious* historian (as opposed to a comical one, no doubt) have to comment on the purpose of the Webb? Or on the status of the big bang?

Your comment was nothing more than a useless, and doubtful, anecdote.

 

[Pixel42]

Yay!

Everything 'nominal' so far.

 

[Darat]

Yay! Didn’t blow-up!!!

 

[Puppycow]

Saw the solar panels deploy. Our last view of the telescope!

This is going great so far.

 

[Puppycow]

The telescope is now on its own. The rocket at least did its job perfectly.

Now if anything goes wrong from here on, its not on the rocket company.

 

[arthwollipot]

“It’s a great day for planet Earth.” - Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator.

“We have delivered a Christmas gift today to humanity, to people, to NASA, but also to all the people in this world.” - Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General

“Historians of the future will divide our understanding of the cosmos into eras Before Webb, and After Webb.” - Michelle Thaller, astronomer

 

[Fidelio]

Great, now we have to wait months if not years for this thing to fail.


>>>>disclaimer>>>> When President Kennedy did the "We'll go to the moon." My opinion was 'yeah that's gonna happen.'

 

[shemp]

Yay! Didn’t blow-up!!!

It will. The Jewish space lasers haven't launched their attack yet.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

great.
James Webb will take hi-res pictures of God and all of us atheists are going to have egg on our faces.

 

[Darat]

great.
James Webb will take hi-res pictures of God and all of us atheists are going to have egg on our faces.

Nah - it will be Adams’ “We apologize for the inconvenience”

 

[welshdean]

This event, imho, is akin to 'One small step...'