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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by hypertele-Xii on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:54PM (#29856740)
Doubling the data will also double the processing requirements for that data. The observatory is just the remote part of this operation. The data doesn't do squat unless stored, analyzed and interpreted by expensive professionals on expensive equipment.

It's like saying if you're gonna build a chip fab, why not build two while you're at it? Well because the building isn't the operation.

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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by WalterBright on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:55PM (#29859003)
Why do I have to do all the thinking?

1. Grad students and computers are cheap.

2. Crowd source it. Make the data (and the programs that process it) freely available. Let anyone who wants to analyze it - if they find something cool, they can be famous. They'll do it for free.

3. Processing doesn't have to be done in real time. There's no problem with taking 5 years to analyze 1 year of data.

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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by hypertele-Xii on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:34AM (#29861476)
All of the above are already utilized, to varying degrees of success, and lack thereof. I believe in this stuff but let's be real, we're exploding fossil fuel to propel a camera into space. Baby steps for global consciousness.
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