Posted on 07/13/2022 9:00:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Beat me to it.
We'll be The Pirate Twins again..
LOL, thanks. I needed a good laugh.
It’s the one that “astronomers don’t want you to know about.”<<<
“Especially for stars born before 1952.” :)
Yep.
What’s Webb’s “one weird trick”?
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King George III? I was just watching a presentation about King George villified in history as the King who “lost the colonies”. The Brit author gave some good arguments that he accepted the independence of the US in good terms.
So whereās Carl Sagan?
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Still waiting for that nuclear winter thing somewhere, not sure of his actual location right now.
Yes King George III
Specially named āGeorgium Sidusā (the āGeorgian Starā)
https://knowledgenuts.com/uranus-had-a-different-name-for-70-years/
Snobs didnāt like a relative amateur who got above his station by doing actual science getting to name things, so they changed the name.
Me, I call it George
Excellent!
Fantastic engineering, production, and operation...
Now, let’s hope that the science, over the next few years, will be just as stunning...
While the JWST experimental device is brilliant in its conception and implementation, it is the caliber of today’s computer-addicted scientists that gives me a little concern...
The past 40-years of scientific drought in the fundamental sciences has been driven, in part, by scientists who rely on stumbling onto something from extensive computer analyses rather than original thought generated between their ears...
A computer is just a tool.
How one uses that tool is what makes for discovery...............
They’re just aiming sensors at known objects to gauge their response and make calibrations when looking at deep space.
IOW, they had to launch the $9 billion JWST into space to see what’s in it. /s
I’m a supporter of pure science but putting the equivalent of an aircraft carrier in terms of capital expense where it could never be repaired (300% the expenditure for Hubble) is just stupid.
Your government spends multiple trillions on “Compassionate wars” and routinely gives away hundreds of billions to foreign countries all over the planet, but you’re complaining about 8 billion spent on science/JWST?
C’mon.
Bush spend 3+ trillion on his 10 year long compassionate war.
1 trillion equals 1,000 billion...So just one idiot in the White House spent 3,000 billion and we won NOTHING.
But 9 billion for James Webb telescope is outrageous....What a hoot!
I hope you forgot your sarc tag.
That was in regards to your, “Aircraft carrier expense” comment, as much as it was a general comment. I like to put things in perspective.
Again, I hope you had forgotten your sarc tag.
I never use sarcasm tags. I’m a fan deadpan humor.
It read that way, but sometimes on FR it’s hard to tell, ya know?
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