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08-15-2011, 02:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | James Webb Space Telescope
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Wowzer. 6 billion dollars for a camera in a million mile high orbit.
Can't wait to see what delights it sends back....but it's a 2018 launch date  |
08-15-2011, 02:55 PM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | Mabey not....
This is the least "loaded" article (just the facts, ma'am) I could find in a quick search.* Congress Comes Closer to Killing NASA's James Webb Telescope *I DO NOT intend to steer this into a political debate. Keep yours to yourself. |
08-15-2011, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I was about to suggest the same thing. Either way, we've already sunk in about 15 years and almost 3 billion into it.
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08-15-2011, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | No desire on my part for that sir!
Genuinely can't wait to see what it sends back...just hope it all goes ahead. |
08-15-2011, 04:18 PM
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08-15-2011, 04:28 PM
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08-15-2011, 04:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Unless it finds nothing but more space...
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08-15-2011, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | glad y'all think 3 billion is a drop in the bucket. to me, it's a lot of cash. 
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08-15-2011, 06:01 PM
| | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | | Unfortunately, I can't post what I want to say, so I'll just say this:
Should we use our resources to learn as much as we can about the universe around us? There are other celestial bodies out there to get resources from as well, once we get to them.
Or should we horde everything and wait for the sun to grow huge and red and reduce this planet to a frizzled black rock where nothing is worth anything? |
08-15-2011, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Apparently our legacy is to be yet another dead burnt rock floating in space.
well shoot, we make purrtty excullunt bombz. scroo dat scienze.
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08-15-2011, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by hover  Apparently our legacy is to be yet another dead burnt rock floating in space. | Most likely, but it's good that there are those who push the envelope despite that dismal observation.
As for bombs, trust me, there is nothing we could EVER create that could compare to a good focused dose of gamma radiation from an exploding star only a hundred lightyears away or so. The universe laughs at our childish attempts to destroy! |
08-15-2011, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Bloodhammer Unfortunately, I can't post what I want to say, so I'll just say this:
Should we use our resources to learn as much as we can about the universe around us? There are other celestial bodies out there to get resources from as well, once we get to them.
Or should we horde everything and wait for the sun to grow huge and red and reduce this planet to a frizzled black rock where nothing is worth anything? | Yes; it's in our nature to learn.
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08-16-2011, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by emor | Was going to post the exact same thing.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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