Or, in my case, Germain's RDF.
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I just found out that the US portion is actually over $10 billion. An the Europeans and Canadians spent hundreds of millions each. What freaks we humans are. We slaughter each other but gift our stargazers the most expensive toys imaginable. I very much look forward to the pretty pictures we will soon see, hopefully.
Insane considering what such amounts could do for everything going on it the world now but they use it to throw a non serviceable spy glass into space.
This is the thing. There is a direct benefit from the development of space technologies into everyday life. What is harder to put a value on, is effect events like this on producing the next generation of scientists, engineers, designers and technicians. How many people trying solve todays problems were inspired by the moon landings or other huge engineering feats?
I think that too, but then I think what else they are wasting vast amounts of money on, we could still have NASA etc and cut from other crap, or better yet tax the elite properly.
Saying this, I'm not American of course.
80% of unexplored ocean? Disease research? McClelland tobacco?
No need to be, we've all fallen prey to idiots.
Ohh, Australia big time - well most countries I'd imagine anyways.
I guess I meant it as " we can still have NASA and others etc" but without having the experience and knowledge of your politics, economy etc.
Yeah I didn't mean for that to come across condescending if anybody out there may have thought that.
The scary part is the idiots seem to keep getting re-elected.
That and they make themselves appear to be incompetent and wasteful, when in fact they are corrupt and very good at giving money to their mates.
If anyone is interested, I stumbled across a neat WEBBsite for tracking progress of the mission, nominal deployments and future endeavors. Just click on the following link.
Where is Webb?
Where is Webb?
Yes, that is a great link, great 'WEBBsite' too!
(Ah I see what you did there..)
Apologies for getting the thread off track earlier there, glad you posted this to get it back on course - will be checking on this every now and then, fascinating stuff.
(Ah I see what you did there..)
Apologies for getting the thread off track earlier there, glad you posted this to get it back on course - will be checking on this every now and then, fascinating stuff.
I can’t wait to see the result but there still a part of me that think what is the purpose of this ? Like Chasing Embers said 80% of the ocean unexplored and we already aimed for infinite galaxies . I hope at the end it’s worth ! If only they could invest this in tobacco fields all around the planet instead I’ll be super happy ?
I think all of this is pretty neat, being the uneducated bastard that I am, Who Knows? Maybe they will discover something that they don't won't to know about? or maybe they might may be afraid of what there going to find out?
When you realize how complicated they are you have to be impressed with the precision they are carried out.
On a long enough time scale, there will be at most two categories of human culture: the ones that survived the next meteor, and the ones that did not.
I can’t wait until we get an egg or two into another planetary basket.
I can’t wait until we get an egg or two into another planetary basket.
Until humans can travel faster than light, we are going nowhere. The closest star is over 4 light years away. A single light year is around 25 trillion miles away from us. Multiply times four and you are over 100 trillion miles away,
Our fastest plane is the A12 Oxcart. at about 2200 hundred miles an hour it would take billions of years to get any where in our galaxy.
Until we get some Dilithium Cystills we are going no wear. However I do believe a scientist from the US created a stable work hoke the size of a peanut. If we can create our own steady worm holes that could be the ticket. It is fun to see NASA back in action again.
Our fastest plane is the A12 Oxcart. at about 2200 hundred miles an hour it would take billions of years to get any where in our galaxy.
Until we get some Dilithium Cystills we are going no wear. However I do believe a scientist from the US created a stable work hoke the size of a peanut. If we can create our own steady worm holes that could be the ticket. It is fun to see NASA back in action again.
I agree that we have to beat the speed of light to successfully complete regular interstellar travel. Based on what we know now, that speed limit is impossible to break. No one has observed an object in the universe go faster than the speed of light.
But the fastest spacecraft so far has gone about 245,000 miles an hour.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has gone faster than any spacecraft ever - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2276358-nasas-parker-solar-probe-has-gone-faster-than-any-spacecraft-ever/