Comments by "Michael Deierhoi" (@michaeldeierhoi4096) on "The First Thing That James Webb Will See" video.

  1. That is something else more in the realm of science fiction. At best JWST will be able to look at the atmosphere of planets and determine that if could support life. There is a definite unknown of what it could see. It will be exciting nonetheless.
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  2. @Valliantredneck You don't care because you are like many, but not all males who think it doesn't matter to you whether women are afforded equal opportunity. The fact is that out of 1000 proposals 226 were chosen and one third of those just happened to be women. Women have been shut of the science community almost completely until just recently. So this is a step forward for humanity. When women have equal opportunity it is better for all of us. Period!! As a man I'm proud to see humanity take this step forward!
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  3. It is typical that when people talk about alleged military/defence systems there is never much detail. That alone should give people pause. Conspiracy theory is always looking for relevance or credibility, but since it is always so limited in its explanations or details it comes up short. Every. Single. Time. imo
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  4. Waaaa Waaaa. All this attention for giving women equal opportunity is too much!!! Waaaa Waaaa. 😂😅🤣😂😅🤣
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  5.  @TinRapper  The proposals chosen for research to use the JWST were chosen based on a double blind study. Thus there was no bias or candidates chosen simply because of gender or anything else. Out of 1000 applications to do science with JWST 266 were chosen and of those one third were women. Thus those women were chose because their proposals were among the best. They just happened to be women.
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  6. Apparently so. Much of that time is needed to align and calibrate the primary and secondary mirrors and for JW to cool down to 45 ° K or 233° C.
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  7. Thanks for the insight!
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  8. The Ultra Deep Field is supposed to be exactly what JWST looks at first. 👍👍
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  9.  @lukasskymuh5910  Except it is not nothing. When Hubble did the long exposure of the Ultra Deep Field it revealed many, many more galaxies out there then anyone imagined. And the most distant galaxies were billions of light years away. If that doesn't give you a sense of awe that's too bad. Kind of sad even.
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  10.  @valiantredneck  It's kind of sad that you didn't get my point or worse you did, but don't care. Times are changing and if you don't change too then you be left behind.
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  11. @Mike Desposito There are no cameras on the JWST itself to look at itself. That option was ruled out by the development team. So the only view we have of the JW is when it was released by the Ariane 5 2nd stage after launch.
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  12. You kids need an education about how women have always marginalized in the science world and only now been getting their due. The comment in this video was a few seconds which was preceded by the mention of 41 countries that had their proposals accepted. Why not complain about that too?? You sound like insecure males with your comments and I'm sure most women would agree. I am a man and disappointed by reading again of such immature reactions.
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  13.  @IanHamby  How was the presentation stopped?? What kind of drugs are you taking to make such a statement that has no bearing on reality??
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  14. And what more should humanity being doing? When it comes to technology to better observe the universe this is cutting edge.
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  15. Think about the progression in technological innovation from the Hershel Space Observatory that was launched in 2009 by ESA and cost over a billion$$. That mission also went to L2 and was kept cold by a refrigerant that expired after three years leaving the instrument dead. The JWST is a huge step in technology beyond Hershel. The sun shield, the much larger mirror all make for a much more advanced telescope which is not cheap. Then add to that a fickle Congress that is sometimes slow to provide adequate funding. Delay in funding ultimately increases the final cost of the instrument. It is the same problem with the SLS. Both of these instruments have also been delayed by the covid pandemic. If you want to look at really disturbing wasteful spending look at the US military in which Congress often authorizes weapons the military didn't ask for leading to a bloated military budget.
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  16. 🤣😅😂🤣😅😂. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but Space X is focused on building rockets that will go to the moon and Mars and launching internet satellites. They don't do telescopes or deep space probes. Period. The JWST is cutting edge technology and is the most advanced space telescope ever built. Your blind admiration to Elon and Space X has blinded you to their limitations!!!
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  17.  @2JZLS  That is a circular argument when you claim the richest people could build 27 of the JWST telescopes thus casting doubt on the cutting edge technology of the JW. In other words when you use your absurd hypothetical statement as evidence that JWST is not really cutting edge, then you really have no clue what you are talking about!
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  18. This is hardly an exceptional example of a cost over run in the US government. After all military weapons contracts are often many billions $$ more budget. Compare the US military budget of 700 billion +. which has often made conflicts worse in the world and caused a great deal more suffering in the world. And Congress often passes legislation for weapons that the military didn't even ask for. The wasteful spending and inefficiency in the military is in the TENS of billions every year. NASA struggles with a tiny fraction of that budget. It is also not surprising that the JWST would see such cost over runs because much of the technology was not even developed when it was first proposed to cost one billion $$. Perspective enhances understanding.
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  19.  @billderinbaja3883  There is so much you have to learn about these things. Trying to claim this could to be the end of NASA is extreme hyperbole. NASA didn't propose let alone build this telescope in a vacuum. And they didn't even build it, but they are the ones tracking its progress at Mission Control. Boeing actually built the JWST and because it was cutting edge technology when it was initially designed the technology that was eventually implemented in some of the instruments was not even developed yet so of course there were cost over runs. And when the JW was put on hold because of a fickle Congress which had to pass funding legislation that also added to the cost. In other words stop acting like cost over runs are a new thing cuz you sound incredibly naive.
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  20. FYI They ALL do that. Every channel tries to get people to subscribe so your comment lacks perspective.
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  21.  @after_midnight9592  Aesthetic appearances have their place, but ultimately the JWST was designed purely for functionality not appearance. The end result is indeed pleasing however. And the Voyager spacecraft were extraordinary in what they accomplished. Who cares what they looked like?
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  22. As before NASA posts all of the images that it sees on its website. Images from Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra are all there for people to see. I have no reason or evidence that NASA keeps anything from the public as far as the images that it posts. If we don't know if something is kept from us what difference does it make??
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  23. @Kellen Sarien Your comment says more about you then about who you direct your criticism. If you enthusiasm is diminished simply because of this two second statement in this video then you weren't all that excited about in the first place. This is really a classic example of IMS or Insecure Male Syndrome in which a man takes a brief comment and rants about it for a few hundred words. You are clearly threatened by this mere statement that one third of the recipients of the proposals accepted were women. I am a man and didn't see this as women favored at all! 41 countries were also reflected in those accepted proposals. Why don't you complain about those?
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  24.  @radicaldreamer927  Are you listening not so radical dreamer??
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  25. Your snide comment notwithstanding, the JWST considered putting a camera on the JW but it in the end decided against it because for various reasons. But also when did NASA ever add a camera to any previous space telescope? Hershel, Hubble, Spitzer or Chandra I don't recall any of them having a self viewing camera. I would however glad to be proven wrong. The goal is to get to the L2 location and begin doing observations.
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  26.  @xand2870  You are so smart go figure it out yourself!!
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  27.  @xand2870  Hello? You were asking the questions?
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  28.  @Sage-Laura321  Still waiting for you to provide any evidence for that 6 day fairy tale?! Hint: the Bible is NOT evidence. After all most Christians don't follow your literal interpretation of the bible.
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  29.  @Sage-Laura321  😅😂🤣. You fundamentalists all say that. By the way evolutionists don't have a bible unless you call science their bible.
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  30.  @Sage-Laura321  Your initial comment began with "God is amazing" and no where in any of your comments do I see any acknowledgement of the video which these comments followed. The JWST is all about doing science of the universe. Can you put into context your perspective of this incredible science mission without the usual "God is Amazing" rhetoric?
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  31.  @Sage-Laura321  🙄
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  32. Because we are seeing the light that left that galaxy for example 12 billion years ago. That galaxy has moved to a completely different place since then. If we look at the sun we see it as it was 8 minutes earlier.
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  33.  @Opinionteer  The light from those early galaxies have traveled across the universe since their formation. That light was coming millions even billions of years before humans first saw it and it will continue for millions to billions of years after. Some time in the distant future that galaxy will look different, but it will still be same galaxy. The same with the sun cuz of course it is much closer.
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  34. As well as the Hershel Space Observatory launched by ESA to L2 in 2009.
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  35. JWST is designed for remote viewing in the universe and imaging exoplanets for possible liveable environments by looking at atmospheres. As well as many other things. There are numerous other telescopes already looking for near earth objects like potentially threatening asteroids. .
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  36. Here's a better idea. Accept that women deserve equal opportunity to do science as men do. Women have been deprived of the opportunity to do science because of the male dominated system which rigorously restricted women into the all boys club from the beginning. This merely states that because of the double blind selection process many women WERE CHOSEN simply because of the high quality of their proposal just like the others that were chosen.
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  37. That was no never articulated as a goal. The JWST will see closer then ever before to the time when the first galaxies were formed which is still a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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  38. From launch it will take the JWST 29 days to get to L2. During that time complete deployment of it should take place. Upon arrival at L2 the main and secondary mirror calibration commences. Also the cooling of the JW also continues until it reaches operational temperature of 40 °K or 233 ° C which will take a few months.
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  39. I see no problem with that statement because this marks a change in the attitudes of the past when perfectly competent women were marginalized from doing science. Good on you for asking an open ended question on this matter. We still have a long way to go in our society where women are recognized as competent in science as men are. There just aren't as many women in science because of the bias against them.
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  40.  @bobsmith2373  In the first place my comment about "good on for asking an open ended question" was to another commenter's question and I don't see how it ended up here. Thus I'm not sure what you are responding to, but the bottom line is I have no issue with that comment in the video. Some males such as yourself took offence to it but that clearly says more them and you then your criticism of the remark by the narrator.
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  41. Not likely. The best that the JWST will do is to flesh out aspects and obtain better images of the early universe that we didn't understand before.
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  42. The JWST is not the first telescope sent to L2 to do infrared astronomy. The Hershel Space Observatory was launched in 2009 to L2 by ESA, but only lasted three years. It still did something like 7000 hours of observations. For a telescope to see in infrared it must be kept extremely cold which is the whole point of the JWST sun shield.
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  43. Those would have to be pretty big alien ships for JW to see them. More likely is JW seeing at atmosphere around a planet that could be habitable. But I get the amazing optics of seeing such a thing. That's a good idea for a video even just a short one.
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  44.  @massivemagoo  Sure if were that close and JW will be looking at our solar system, but only the outer planets because of its orientation at L2 it is always looking outward.
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  45. The next possible scope is also an infrared telescope which looks like the JWST, but is much bigger called Luvoir.
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  46. There is no point in just concentrating on any one target. There is so much to see out there.
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  47. Ah yes, I see you are the second commenter I have observed with IMS or Insecure Male Syndrome made clear by your dismissive "who gives a crap" attitude. Go back and look at the history of science including astronomy and you'll learn about how women who were perfectly competent were still marginalized by the patriarchal system in the science world. It is only recently that women have been getting their due.
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  48. At best JWST will expand our awareness and understanding of the universe, but will likely not provide conclusive evidence to what you suggest. I think JWST is going to be used for more specific observations like finding planets that may livable atmospheres or getting a better view of the early universe.
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  49. Watch a few of the various videos on the LaGrange points because that would help understand better. L2 is empty space just like other LaGrange points. What is unique about L2 is that it is a not fully stable location and the JWST must periodically fire thrusters to keep it in a circular orbit around the L2 center. The JWST must also circle that center to stay out of direct alignment from the sun and earth combined because of EMR that could effect its function. I don't fully understand that bit, but that is basically the issue.
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  50. The JWST is designed to use infrared technology to look at the universe which can only be done by keeping the instrument extremely cold. The Hershel Space Observatory was also a telescope designed to see in infrared was also positioned 1.5 million kms away at L2 to keep it cool. The JWST is an advancement in keeping cool with sun shield and its position at L2.
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  51. Not really any different then pointing the Hubble at something to view it.
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