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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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