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Posted: 12/28/2021 2:32:51 AM EST
[Last Edit: MadMonkey]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By junker46: Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. I know this is in contrast with 'Astronaut Heros' and 'muh NASA!' and 'Merica!. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By junker46: Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Never get to what? Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. I know this is in contrast with 'Astronaut Heros' and 'muh NASA!' and 'Merica!. Baby steps. We know essentially nothing right now. As our knowledge expands, so do the possibilities. Things that were unimaginable a century ago are commonplace now (ETA: And, coincidentally, much of it is due to the space program). |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 3:01:23 AM EST
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This thing is pretty cool, I got to see hubble launch when I was 14 and now my 14yo gets to witness Webb. I hope he has the same reactions to Webb as I did with Hubble images
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Posted: 12/28/2021 10:28:56 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By junker46: Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By junker46: Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Never get to what? Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. I think it’s very different, because a giant meteor/comet/black hole hit on planet Earth might not be something where we can just “learn to mitigate the damage” - such things could be near-extinction events, which we know have happened in the past. Furthermore, we KNOW the the sun will eventually expand and engulf Earth. While that is obviously VERY far in the future, it is known event that is likely going to make the planet uninhabitable. The motivation of someone like Musk is not about glory or patriotism or anything silly like that - it’s about the survival of the human species. |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 12:18:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: yeah we really need to start on that. The Bigelow tech has been there for a while now Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By Rudukai13: Not successful yet. And not that giant. Wait until we get the infrastructure to start manufacturing them in orbit - that’s when you’ll see some big fucking mirrors yeah we really need to start on that. The Bigelow tech has been there for a while now We do? Really? You want a SAPL array that can vaporize the Earth's surface? What is the point of that and who would control it? |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 12:41:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Skillshot: We do? Really? You want a SAPL array that can vaporize the Earth's surface? What is the point of that and who would control it? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Skillshot: Originally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By Rudukai13: Not successful yet. And not that giant. Wait until we get the infrastructure to start manufacturing them in orbit - that’s when you’ll see some big fucking mirrors yeah we really need to start on that. The Bigelow tech has been there for a while now We do? Really? You want a SAPL array that can vaporize the Earth's surface? What is the point of that and who would control it? wut? I am talking about his giant infaltable modules to do experiments in in outerspace. small to launch then you inflate tem |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 12:46:50 PM EST
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Can’t wait for the images on APOD
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Posted: 12/28/2021 1:10:34 PM EST
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Posted: 12/28/2021 1:11:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: Well, I hope it all works out... and that this is not the first image it returns: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14121/FHkHFw9WYAUEkrK_jpg-2218602_JPG-2219695.JPG  |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/28/2021 1:23:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: Well, I hope it all works out... and that this is not the first image it returns: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14121/FHkHFw9WYAUEkrK_jpg-2218602_JPG-2219695.JPG They handled it: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13931 |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 2:17:43 PM EST
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IL, USA
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Posted: 12/28/2021 2:46:24 PM EST
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The JWST will increase the size of the visible universe by several billion light years, by this time next year the universe will probably be much bigger than we thought.
The hubble deep field got us to around 12-13b years visible age of the universe. However at a certain point the light from those distant galaxies is to far shifted to the red for hubble to detect because Hubble didn't have much IR capability. The current consensus is that there is only an extra billion or so years of visible universe beyond the current hubble deep field - at that point the earliest galaxies are hidden by dense primordial clouds of hydrogen and helum created during the big bang. The JWST will see a lot deeper into the IR spectrum so there is a good chance it will reveal scores more galaxies beyond the limits of hubble's deep field, and even reveal galaxies hidden in the primordial soup of the early universe. My personal guess, we won't see the primordial gas created from the big bang condensing into the earliest galaxies. We're going to see red-shifted galaxies going back back and back. All the way to the limits of the JWST making the universe 20, even 30b years old, and it will vastly change the current model of the evolution of the universe. |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 3:00:03 PM EST
[Last Edit: junker46]
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That (above) is heavy, man.
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MadMonkey: Baby steps. We know essentially nothing right now. As our knowledge expands, so do the possibilities. Things that were unimaginable a century ago are commonplace now (ETA: And, coincidentally, much of it is due to the space program). Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MadMonkey: Baby steps. We know essentially nothing right now. As our knowledge expands, so do the possibilities. Things that were unimaginable a century ago are commonplace now (ETA: And, coincidentally, much of it is due to the space program). True, but... Originally Posted By DK-Prof: ...snip... The motivation of someone like Musk is not about glory or patriotism or anything silly like that - it’s about the survival of the human species. I ready doubt we'll make it that far. Just as a need for self/species preservation, we are also big on self/species destruction. Just hard-wired into us. But thinking on the first quote: do we really have new innovation or are we just building on what we already established? Even the most advanced robots are just a parts pile of pumps, hoses, valves, circuit boards hung on a metal chassis. Blue Tooth is just radio. Etc. |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 9:24:37 PM EST
[Last Edit: AR4U]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: If! It works and it's looking more and more likely that it is. I'm starting to think that this sun shield could turn out to be Webb's first big industrial contribution. If it is in service for any period of time the lessons learned could form the basis of something that could be scaled up. Perhaps big enough to cover a planet..?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 9:37:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AR4U: Futurama covered this technology. It was found inferior to periodically adding large chunks of comet ice to the oceans. Let's just say I don't trust their science.  Resurrecting calculon [ HUN SUB ] I mean they had Al Gore's daughter on the payroll for fucks sake. |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 9:38:08 PM EST
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Current status:
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Posted: 12/28/2021 10:54:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Current status: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/deployment/1000pxWide/108.png so succesfull opening of the pallets? |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 11:04:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: so succesfull opening of the pallets? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By Rudukai13: Current status: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/deployment/1000pxWide/108.png so succesfull opening of the pallets? Correct. Over the next five days or so they’ll be undergoing the process of extending the shields to the sides and separating the layers. That process involves hundreds of individual failure points, exactly none of which can go wrong or it’s pretty much game over. Harrowing shit |
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Posted: 12/28/2021 11:44:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Correct. Over the next five days or so they’ll be undergoing the process of extending the shields to the sides and separating the layers. That process involves hundreds of individual failure points, exactly none of which can go wrong or it’s pretty much game over. Harrowing shit Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Originally Posted By midcap: Originally Posted By Rudukai13: Current status: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/deployment/1000pxWide/108.png so succesfull opening of the pallets? Correct. Over the next five days or so they’ll be undergoing the process of extending the shields to the sides and separating the layers. That process involves hundreds of individual failure points, exactly none of which can go wrong or it’s pretty much game over. Harrowing shit ahhh yes....it's crunch time. i wasthced the video and holy moly that's a lot of stuff going on. |
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Posted: 12/29/2021 7:18:49 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html Any one know how long NASA plans to keep this site up after arrival at L2? |
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Posted: 12/29/2021 9:20:01 AM EST
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Posted: 12/29/2021 1:34:38 PM EST
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Posted: 12/29/2021 1:50:00 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By junker46: Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. I know this is in contrast with 'Astronaut Heros' and 'muh NASA!' and 'Merica!. lol |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:19:26 AM EST
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Trying to open the where is Webb site and getting nothing but privacy errors. I've opened it before with no problems.
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:29:45 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By johnh57: Trying to open the where is Webb site and getting nothing but privacy errors. I've opened it before with no problems. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:43:40 AM EST
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Yeah, that's the link. This is what I'm getting back.
Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.jwst.nasa.gov (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:52:58 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By johnh57: Yeah, that's the link. This is what I'm getting back. Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.jwst.nasa.gov (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID Works fine here, guess attackers already have all my info
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:57:38 AM EST
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Works for me. Tower Assembly has been successfully deployed:
The Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA) is deployed. The tower extends 1.22 meters. This movement/distance provides needed separation between the spacecraft and telescope to allow for better thermal isolation and to allow room for the sunshield membranes to unfold. Prior to this, several release devices will have been activated, and various heaters, software, and electronics have been configured to support deployments. This deployment motion is driven by a motor. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:03:09 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Works for me. Tower Assembly has been successfully deployed: Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Works for me. Tower Assembly has been successfully deployed: The Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA) is deployed. The tower extends 1.22 meters. This movement/distance provides needed separation between the spacecraft and telescope to allow for better thermal isolation and to allow room for the sunshield membranes to unfold. Prior to this, several release devices will have been activated, and various heaters, software, and electronics have been configured to support deployments. This deployment motion is driven by a motor. woot woot! also check out the temps....so obviously a sun shield works in space that good to know |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:24:10 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rudukai13: Works for me. Tower Assembly has been successfully deployed: Kinda fun to think about the motor and mechanisms that did this probably cost over a million dollars, with thousands of hours of design and testing by people dedicated to this one thing making a 1-2 meter movement, once, and thats it, now it just sits there, its 15 minutes of fame shot. Repeat ~300 times over the next week
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:49:39 AM EST
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Coming in to this kind of late but has the telescope found the mass relays yet??
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Posted: 12/30/2021 2:30:57 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: woot woot! also check out the temps....so obviously a sun shield works in space that good to know They proved that concept back in the 70s when they stretched a Mylar tarp over a damaged part of Skylab. 
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Posted: 12/30/2021 2:38:40 AM EST
[Last Edit: AeroE]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: I think it's very different, because a giant meteor/comet/black hole hit on planet Earth might not be something where we can just "learn to mitigate the damage" - such things could be near-extinction events, which we know have happened in the past. Furthermore, we KNOW the the sun will eventually expand and engulf Earth. While that is obviously VERY far in the future, it is known event that is likely going to make the planet uninhabitable. The motivation of someone like Musk is not about glory or patriotism or anything silly like that - it's about the survival of the human species. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: Originally Posted By junker46: Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Never get to what? Travel or learn anything useful about distant stars/planets. I don't think there is any real benefit to all this. There is a lot to see but very little if any practicality deep space exploration. We may guess at compositions of other stars and planets; learn more about gravitational fields or time or whatever. And of course the 'spin-off' technologies, and keeping several thousands educated and employed. But outside radio waves, I doubt mankind will reach other star patterns. We'd have a difficult time reaching Mars. Its like billions spent studying earthquakes and hurricanes. We may, at some point, learn very precise and predictable effects of them. But guess what? There is fuck-all to do anything about it. All you can do is learn to mitigate the damage caused. I think it's very different, because a giant meteor/comet/black hole hit on planet Earth might not be something where we can just "learn to mitigate the damage" - such things could be near-extinction events, which we know have happened in the past. Furthermore, we KNOW the the sun will eventually expand and engulf Earth. While that is obviously VERY far in the future, it is known event that is likely going to make the planet uninhabitable. The motivation of someone like Musk is not about glory or patriotism or anything silly like that - it's about the survival of the human species. Earth will probably experience two or three major meteor strikes before that time that kill most everything but bugs and blind cave fish. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 7:51:08 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By midcap: woot woot! also check out the temps....so obviously a sun shield works in space that good to know |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 9:55:43 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroE: The Sun will engulf the entire inner system. There will be no survival of anything living or built by men, and none of their memory except that sent out of the solar system on tiny exploration probes. Earth will probably experience two or three major meteor strikes before that time that kill most everything but bugs and blind cave fish. Oh sure, if we leave the sun alone that will happen. The sun will start to fuse helium, iron and other heavy elements will build up. Iron being a fusion poison. Unless we have a way of getting those elements out of the sun...  Starlifting While writing a story I imagined Enrico Fermi creating a weapon specifically designed to kill cosmic horrors. Imagination is the only weapon we have against reality. But imagination must be expressed in the form of hardware. Not the easiest thing, but not impossible and certainly more appealing than just sitting around on a planet and waiting for the end to come. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 10:08:36 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Oh sure, if we leave the sun alone that will happen. The sun will start to fuse helium, iron and other heavy elements will build up. Iron being a fusion poison. Unless we have a way of getting those elements out of the sun... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5UWhile writing a story I imagined Enrico Fermi creating a weapon specifically designed to kill cosmic horrors. Imagination is the only weapon we have against reality. But imagination must be expressed in the form of hardware. Not the easiest thing, but not impossible and certainly more appealing than just sitting around on a planet and waiting for the end to come. the sun doesn't weigh enough to make iron. not even close. we would actually need to add more hydrogen to slow this. the amount we need to add to make it worth it is probably the weight of everything else in the solar system. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 10:13:58 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AgeOne: the sun doesn't weigh enough to make iron. not even close. we would actually need to add more hydrogen to slow this. the amount we need to add to make it worth it is probably the weight of everything else in the solar system. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AgeOne: Originally Posted By Hesperus: Oh sure, if we leave the sun alone that will happen. The sun will start to fuse helium, iron and other heavy elements will build up. Iron being a fusion poison. Unless we have a way of getting those elements out of the sun... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5UWhile writing a story I imagined Enrico Fermi creating a weapon specifically designed to kill cosmic horrors. Imagination is the only weapon we have against reality. But imagination must be expressed in the form of hardware. Not the easiest thing, but not impossible and certainly more appealing than just sitting around on a planet and waiting for the end to come. the sun doesn't weigh enough to make iron. not even close. we would actually need to add more hydrogen to slow this. the amount we need to add to make it worth it is probably the weight of everything else in the solar system. The Sun is already nearly 999 parts of 1000 of the mass of the Solar System. It would have to be at least 10 times, maybe 1000 times more massive to generate iron through fusion. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 10:28:13 AM EST
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/30/2021 12:34:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hater: They haven't even stretched it open yet. The booms/frames are extended, but the sheets haven't been unfurled. That should happen over the next few days. Then it will get really cold on the telescope side. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hater: They haven't even stretched it open yet. The booms/frames are extended, but the sheets haven't been unfurled. That should happen over the next few days. Then it will get really cold on the telescope side. Side booms are not out yet, I believe that’s the very next step. They just successfully deployed the aft momentum flap:  The Aft Momentum Flap is used to help offset some of the solar pressure that impinges on the large sunshield. Use of the momentum flap helps to minimize fuel usage during the mission. After releasing hold-down devices, a spring drives the rotation of the aft flap to its final position. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:04:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Oh sure, if we leave the sun alone that will happen. The sun will start to fuse helium, iron and other heavy elements will build up. Iron being a fusion poison. Unless we have a way of getting those elements out of the sun... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5UWhile writing a story I imagined Enrico Fermi creating a weapon specifically designed to kill cosmic horrors. Imagination is the only weapon we have against reality. But imagination must be expressed in the form of hardware. Not the easiest thing, but not impossible and certainly more appealing than just sitting around on a planet and waiting for the end to come. Starlifting is a good strategy for a Kardashev II civilization. The star will outweigh everything else in the system, as will its share of elements not contributing to fusion. The one thing I wonder though is that G-class stars like our Sun aren't fully convective. Unlike M-class red dwarf stars. That means if we "clean" the Sun of heavier elements, it may not actually benefit the core where the fusion is happening. Our future descendants might need a big stir-stick or something. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:08:55 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AJ_Dual: Starlifting is a good strategy for a Kardashev II civilization. The star will outweigh everything else in the system, as will its share of elements not contributing to fusion. The one thing I wonder though is that G-class stars like our Sun aren't fully convective. Unlike M-class red dwarf stars. That means if we "clean" the Sun of heavier elements, it may not actually benefit the core where the fusion is happening. Our future descendants might need a big stir-stick or something. Our future descendents will probably also have a bunch more stars with which to play with. Not often covered in science fiction. But I like stories about civilizations that tinker with large and dangerous cosmic bodies.  The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:38:00 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dumak: The JWST will increase the size of the visible universe by several billion light years, by this time next year the universe will probably be much bigger than we thought. The hubble deep field got us to around 12-13b years visible age of the universe. However at a certain point the light from those distant galaxies is to far shifted to the red for hubble to detect because Hubble didn't have much IR capability. The current consensus is that there is only an extra billion or so years of visible universe beyond the current hubble deep field - at that point the earliest galaxies are hidden by dense primordial clouds of hydrogen and helum created during the big bang. The JWST will see a lot deeper into the IR spectrum so there is a good chance it will reveal scores more galaxies beyond the limits of hubble's deep field, and even reveal galaxies hidden in the primordial soup of the early universe. My personal guess, we won't see the primordial gas created from the big bang condensing into the earliest galaxies. We're going to see red-shifted galaxies going back back and back. All the way to the limits of the JWST making the universe 20, even 30b years old, and it will vastly change the current model of the evolution of the universe. I've been laughed at for posting this before but I've found no convincing argument that space and time are anything other than infinite. That means that there has been an infinite amount of "big bangs" and its just one long cycle that happens over and over again. It also means that we have plenty of room for an infinite number of the remnants of big bangs all at the same. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 1:55:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wildturkey09: I've been laughed at for posting this before but I've found no convincing argument that space and time are anything other than infinite. That means that there has been an infinite amount of "big bangs" and its just one long cycle that happens over and over again. It also means that we have plenty of room for an infinite number of the remnants of big bangs all at the same. Don’t know why you’d get laughed at for that, that’s certainly a very reasonable possibility |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 2:28:53 PM EST
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At what it cost to produce one telescope, wouldn't a second one built concurrently be more cost effective since all of the tooling and R&D is done for the first model?
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Posted: 12/30/2021 2:33:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By alaskan_9974: At what it cost to produce one telescope, wouldn't a second one built concurrently be more cost effective since all of the tooling and R&D is done for the first model? In theory, yes. In practice, James Webb is already obsolete. We're better off working on the next one, that will be even bigger, far more capable, and designed to fly on a rocket charging a tenth or less what this one cost. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:13:32 PM EST
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Sun shield covers successfully released:
 This is one of a series of events where a long list of actuators and mechanisms have to work perfectly in order to go right, and they did |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:20:53 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: Well, I hope it all works out... and that this is not the first image it returns: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14121/FHkHFw9WYAUEkrK_jpg-2218602_JPG-2219695.JPG 
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:28:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By alaskan_9974: At what it cost to produce one telescope, wouldn't a second one built concurrently be more cost effective since all of the tooling and R&D is done for the first model? The majority of that money went to testing and validating the systems and mechanisms due to the complexity. Even if they built two, the costs would be huge to test and validate every part and system. But there is a design for a more advanced and larger version of JWST on the boards, just needs funding... |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:44:49 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Goback: Coming in to this kind of late but has the telescope found the mass relays yet?? This is an important question. I need an Asari girlfriend. |
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MA, USA
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:47:19 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: If! It works and it's looking more and more likely that it is. I'm starting to think that this sun shield could turn out to be Webb's first big industrial contribution. If it is in service for any period of time the lessons learned could form the basis of something that could be scaled up. Perhaps big enough to cover a planet..? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWIIts a neat idea, but way to fragile to support life. Some drunk can fly his spaceship into the shield and then the sun vaporizes the surface in a day. |
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Posted: 12/30/2021 3:48:07 PM EST
[#50]
@wheel
Any thought to updating this thread's title? Because the JWST has left the launch site. |
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