Cost estimate:
1996 - $1 billion
2014 - $8.8 billion
I demand the assembly instructions be written in Arabic. Obama declared NASA's main mission to be Muslim outreach. Assembling this telescope in English is a clear violation of that mandate.
This thing will be making big discoveries on a routine basis. Some of which will likely very historic.
It's likely this scope will reach out further to explore than manned missions would ever think of reaching for the next 10,000 years, if ever.
Ha...the White House has a time machine in the basement...(next office to the Rovian weather machine)...but it only works in two dimensions....
Here it is producing Obama's BC ....seen coming out of the slot ....
Bump!
When launched it will combine with the Hubble telescope to become the Webb Hubble orbital observatory. Chelsea Clinton will be on hand to press the launch button.
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And if they're particularly lucky, they may be able to find evidence of global warming and warn those other planets, in say a couple of thousand years.
We can't get a man into space, but we can place a $9 billion dollar telescope up there. We've got a $110 billion dollar boondoggle we can't even get our people to, but by golly, we'll have ourselves a brand new space telescope.
The Texas collider was cancelled. It was ball park to cost us about this much. We couldn't afford it.
I guess discovering particles that could help us understand dynamics here on earth was less important than air-pollution on exoplanets hundreds or tens of thousands of light years away.
Oh yes, we'll be verifying the big bang. My won't they be surprised when they find out there never was one, and the earth is only about 6,000 years old.
Perhaps it will prove the existence of Mohammad and the storage locker where they keep all the virgins on ice.
2014 - $8.8 billion
A lot of things have to go right with the launch and deployment. There will be no rescue missions either.
It would be SO NICE to read a NASA thread where people don’t dwell on about the “Muslim outreach” nonsense.
I know it’s stupid PC crap, but on EVERY thread, year after year, it just becomes a bunch of noise. We ALL know about it, and repeatedly posting about it accomplishes nothing. A point is reached where there’s no effect, and it’s just tiresome....
This telescope SHOULD be AMAZING! I just hope it gets off to a better start than Hubble did. lol
LOL!... hope nothing goes wrong with it... cause all of our shuttles have been decommissioned... no more American space flights!
What a waste
Interesting article. This caught my eye:
“The Webb will be both bigger and located in a darker part of space than Hubble, enabling it to capture images from the faintest galaxies.”
Just how do you find “a darker part of space”?
The workers there are better protected than health care workers for an ebola patient.
Guess what they’re going to find?
More of the same.
The universe is that big.
Obama and his muslim outreach, and the treasonist democrats, have ruined it all for me.
I don’t see the folks at NASA having any more credibility than the drones that work at my local postoffice.
Telescope, schmelescope ... what sort of shirts are the males working on this project wearing? Do they depict the hetero-normative, patriarchal, “War On Women” by straight white males?
If you combine the Hubble telescope and the Webb telescope you get the Webb Hubble telescope. This new telescope is rumored to be the father of the Chelsea Clinton telescope.
Seems like it’s been forever waiting for this thing to launch.
This thing BETTER unfold properly when it is time....