Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope" video.

  1. The amount of cash donated to charity by the US alone is many times that what is needed to "solve world hunger." It's a matter of human vice and logistics, not government budgets.
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  2. It's still working.
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  3. Have you friggin seen the pictures this thing takes? It's spotted a large hot planet outside the solar system.
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  4. Instead of naming it after a scientist they should have made it a literature reference. Call it "Barad-dur."
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  5. Yep, already operational and putting out better photos than any other telescope.
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  6. That would be a waste of cash akin to Bill Hwang's exploding bank account...
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  7. Can you say nothing?
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  8. Instead of naming it after a scientist they should have made it a literature reference. Call it "Barad-dur."
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  9. Lose the hyperbole. No one's going to die because we didn't get a telescope.
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  10.  @Mrstrikerace  It will never be fixed. End of story.
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  11. It's been discussed to put a radio telescope on a moon crater on the dark side, but you have to factor in light from the Earth as it passes overhead which would blur out all images periodically. Also, most of the costs of going into space are getting into orbit around the Earth as you not only have to go up real high but go sideways real fast to stay up there.
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  12. Vhut?
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  13. No one cares
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  14. Dude, it's working just fine even though a tiny meteor put a hole in it.
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  15. Watch the video and know that engineers aren't cheap. He didn't even discuss the extreme vacuum chamber needing to test this stuff.
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  16. The amount donated to charity by the US alone is nominally many times what is needed to resolve those issues. It's a matter of human vice, not government budgets. So quit whining and do volunteer work for once.
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  17.  @legionofthedamned157  taken already. And the data analytics company is more appropriate given the possible abuses of palantir. Barad-dur was where Sauron sat, and his eye could see through mountains and across the Earth. Appropriate for a deep space telescope.
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  18. Shut up
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  19. No....
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  20. It's a fraction what it was when Apollo was a thing, and there's actually a massive backlog of projects we want to do including but not limited to: Put a probe on Venus that works, get decent pictures of Pluto, send another probe to Mars to pick up the samples other probes have collected and bring them to Earth, put a probe on Europa, build a data link waystation for space probe, and so on and so forth.
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