Forget Biden: We Just Parked a Telescope
a Million Miles in Space to Peer Deep
Into the Origins of Time
RedState.com,
by
Andrew Malcolm
Original Article
Posted By: SurferLad,
1/25/2022 9:08:25 AM
This story is not for cynics, nor folks who lack imagination or national pride.
After nearly 40 expensive years of dreaming, planning, designing, building, congressional whining, testing, and hoping, NASA and its army of very smart people have placed into solar orbit a powerful new seven-ton telescope. It’s capable of detecting infrared light that’s been traveling through the void of space at the speed of light since the earliest moments in time. That is to say, more than 13 billion Earth years ago. The new telescope’s success so far is just one of our nation’s numerous recent space achievements
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/25/2022 9:38:08 AM (No. 1050184)
Thanks, OP. This helps my ever-increasing cynical self think about the all the incredible things we humans are capable of. A brief respite from today's depressing news.
19 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/25/2022 9:42:02 AM (No. 1050192)
A fantastic achievement. Congratulations all.
11 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/25/2022 9:43:31 AM (No. 1050194)
STEM degrees, not diversity degrees, is what did it.
28 people like this.
#3 - Indeed. Want diversity? 1960's Mission Control - old white guys in crew cuts in white dress shirts and neckties, pocket protectors. Today? Ethnic kids - really smart ethnic kids; women - really smart women who comprehend engineering and physics with the best of them.
7 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
red1066 1/25/2022 10:25:46 AM (No. 1050247)
Imagine if today's demoslut party was handed a bill to build such a telescope. They'd kill it faster than a tax cut or a new pipeline. Can't wait to see what kind of images this thing produces. Hopefully it won't be nearsighted like Hubble. It's too far away to correct it and Obozo killed the Space Shuttle.
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
TLCary 1/25/2022 10:39:39 AM (No. 1050258)
#4 It is WRONG to replace the best in brightest with lesser talent because of the color of their skin! It is wrong and detrimental to the cause to do that to a Black woman, it is wrong to discriminate against a White man. https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/highschool-06.html 13.4% of America is Black. 4% of 12th-grade blacks are "Proficient" in Science. "Proficient" will get you a diploma, but "Advanced" in Science is required to hope for NASA. That percentage is so low it isn't on the chart for Black students. Have you ever considered that it was something other than discrimination that made that highly successful room look like it did?
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/25/2022 11:15:41 AM (No. 1050309)
First to build ships to America old white guys. Founders old white guys. First to fly and to orbit the Earth and walk on the moon old white guys. Africa abd other similar nations still living huts, hunting food with bow and arrows, never built a ship, never developed any technology. Why? You tell me —these are just the facts nothing but the facts. Everyone was walking on the Earth at the same time. These are questions no one ever answers.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 1/25/2022 11:30:20 AM (No. 1050352)
I've been following JWST development since it was announced. Been waiting for the launch for years and years. Now its fully deployed and has arrived at the L2 Lagrange point-something I had doubts that I would ever live long enough to see. NASA will now need several months to align the mirrors and calibrate the instruments. I am excited to see what JWST will reveal, and yes, this achievement is a welcome respite from all the terrible shite we've been forced to endure since Nov 2020.
6 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 1/25/2022 11:31:51 AM (No. 1050357)
But it won't reveal what happened before the "Origins of Time", or what set it all in motion.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/25/2022 11:47:06 AM (No. 1050379)
If it doesn't help people walk down the street safely or put bread on the supermarket shelves it's not worth a rats patoot. Knowing NASA's real mission, it will probably "find" that muslims are descendants of the first aliens to reach our galaxy and they should be our rulers.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
dman 1/25/2022 12:30:51 PM (No. 1050433)
As a retired engineer, I appreciate the ingenuity, hard work, and accomplishment - despite all the politics otherwise.
However, if we do not humble ourselves and pray to God ..
.. it simply won't matter.
9 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
49 Ford 1/25/2022 1:24:50 PM (No. 1050498)
Honest science tells us a great deal about How, but it cannot address the questions of Who or Why. The Man Upstairs of course knew this, and revealed Himself through the Ten Commandments and the life of His Son.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 1/25/2022 1:27:11 PM (No. 1050501)
Amen, 11 & 12.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Californian 1/25/2022 2:28:47 PM (No. 1050583)
I'm looking forward to the first new pictures of the universe expected sometime in summer once they're done tuning it after a long hard ride from the ground to it's operational location well away from the planet.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/25/2022 2:35:02 PM (No. 1050587)
How about putting men on the moon in 12ths? No commie metric system back in the 60’s! Slide rulers! And NO! The earth isn’t “billions of years old”! If you believe that…prove it! How will you observe? Can’t sorry! I trust God’sWord regarding creation!
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 1/25/2022 3:17:29 PM (No. 1050631)
They could have saved a lot of money by just using the Lagrange point in Texas, it's right by round top and they got a lot of nice girls there.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 1/25/2022 4:39:34 PM (No. 1050686)
Re# 16
I hear its fine, if you've got the time, and the $10 to get yourself in, hmm hmm.
And, I hear it's tight most every night, but now I might be mistaken, hmm hmm hmm
:-)
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 1/25/2022 5:48:46 PM (No. 1050724)
L2!!!!! We made it, baby!!!!!!!!!!
1 person likes this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/26/2022 5:39:12 AM (No. 1051079)
Any light that has been traveling since the beginning of time could only come from one point in the Cosmos, and the light would long ago have gone past the location of the telescope. The farther back in time you look, the closer you get to seeing nothing at all, even if you are pointed directly at the point of the so-called "big bang".. In order to capture light from that long ago, the telescope would have to travel much faster than the speed of light, It would have to travel exactly away from the point of the so-called "big bang", and it would have to get ahead of the light so it could then capture it.
2 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "SurferLad"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)