Comments by "Matuse" (@Matuse) on "NASAs $10 Billion Time Machine Launching Into Space! James Webb Space Telescope Ready" video.

  1. Except it isn't at all.
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  2. The Webb cannot see exoplants 2-3 million light years from earth. That is further than Andromeda. You don't know what you are talking about. And yes, humans can pass through the Van Allen belts. You should maybe learn what they are before you continue whining about them. Start with the fact that the Van Allen belts were discovered by NASA, and nobody knew they existed before then. Why would NASA invent something that makes their own job impossible? You don't know what you are talking about.
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  3.  @darshantare5985  No, it's not true. You don't know what you are talking about.
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  4. Knowledge is never a waste.
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  5. Because it sees things that happened a very long time ago.
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  6. Everything you believe is a dumb lie.
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  7. No, it will be on the far side of the moon from the Apollo landing sites.
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  8.  @BAGibbs  Yes, of course. Putting it on the earth side of the moon would mean that A) It wouldn't be able to see anything behind the moon, and B) The light from the moon would severely impede it's ability to see anything at all.
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  9. You have no idea what you are talking about.
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  10. If they could put enough fuel onto it to return it, they would instead use that fuel to keep it running for several more years.
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  11. Fun fact: There is no god, the bible is evidence of nothing, not seeing star formation is expected. The process is slow, would require that we be looking in the exact right spot at the exact right time, and that it not be obscured by something else. Your incredulity and ignorance are not arguments.
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  12. Comparatively very little.
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  13. India can't even get electricity to its own population. Grow up.
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  14. Most people are not very familiar with the periodic table, and it's not an element which enters everyday conversation like carbon or oxygen or calcium.
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  15. In 2020, the people in the US spent 4.1 trillion dollars on healthcare. 10 billion is 0.24% of that. Grow up.
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  16. Immutable fact of the internet: Anyone who calls themselves truth will always and only spout the dumbest lies imaginable.
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  17.  @thetruth6684  Thanks for proving my point.
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  18. Should have paid attention in school instead of picking your nose.
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  19. Right, because as everyone knows, insanely complicated technological devices invent and build themselves without any help whatsoever.
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  20. 1) Landing it without destroying it. 2) Landing it with no guidance from Earth. 3) Having to put it on the dark side of the moon so the images it received were not completely washed out by the sun. 4) Putting it on the dark side would mean it wouldn't be able to directly communicate with Earth, so you'd need a second relay station somewhere. 5) Putting it on the dark side would mean no solar power, so it would burn through its fuel very quickly. 6) Identifying a functional landing site that wouldn't have local lunarography obscuring its vision. 7) Being on the moon would mean it could only see in an arc not blocked by the body of the moon, which would severely limit what it could see. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are other reasons that didn't occur to me right away.
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  21.  @JosephAsamoah  Because the probes sent to Mars had 2 advantages: 1) They didn't have 18 engineered-beyond-belief gold mirrors that could be damaged by the descent, and 2) They were going to the light side of the planet and could see where they were going. A dark side of the moon landing would be totally blind and inevitable disaster. No, we cannot guide the Voyagers. That stopped being a thing decades ago. Putting a transponder station on the moon is not simple at all. It would need to be landed thousands of miles from the Lunar Webb landing site, and then thousands of miles of cable run between them so they could communicate. We do not put plutonium into orbit if we can at all avoid it - if the rocket explodes, that's a catastrophe for the next 20,000 years.
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  22. That's extremely stupid. What would the military do with it that they can't already do? Nothing.
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  23. Based on your deep knowledge and training in exobiology, no doubt.
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  24. Based on your years of training and knowledge, no doubt. Right?
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  25. The telescope is already really huge, there's only so much volume and mass that can be fit into a rocket, and this limits how much fuel it can carry.
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  26.  @thingsiplay  It can't be refilled because getting there is impractical. Landing it on the moon is even worse. "some sort of antenna" would have to be an entire second relay station to get the signal from the dark side of the moon. Either an orbiting satellite, or a ground station with a thousand miles of cable. Being on the dark side of the moon also means no solar power, which makes the fuel requirement even worse, and being on the moon means it would have to contend with the body of the moon forever blocking off a huge arc of the sky.
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  27. Except that's impossible.
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  28. Someone looking at earth from thousands of light years away would see...nothing. You can't make out any details of a planet at that distance. At most you can estimate size, mass, orbital period, and if it has an atmosphere, roughly what that atmosphere is made of.
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  29. $10 billion isn't going to do any of those things. Knowledge is never a waste.
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  30. Knowledge is never a waste.
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  31. Electricity is not the limiting factor, maneuvering fuel is.
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  32. Except you could watch the 24/7 livestream from the ISS whenever you wanted. Quit being stupid.
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  33. The telescope will contribute immensely to human knowledge. What do you do?
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  34. It's not going to make contact with anyone. The only transmission it makes is to Earth.
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  35.  @chadsevedra925  Except it doesn't mean that, and you should stop getting your nonsense from feeble internet con men selling the dumbest hoaxes in all of human history.
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  36. As you write your stupidity on a computer...
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  37. Knowledge is never a waste.
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  38. Knowledge is never a waste.
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  39. 10 billion wouldn't feed even 1% of people on earth. Quit thumping your bible and learn something.
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  40. We can. It's ridiculously expensive and highly dangerous.
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