NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations

Re:NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetim... by malfist on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:25PM (#29897316)

I have a few qualms with this telescope:

1. For an astronomer, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an large mirror, mounting it in space with a really big catapult, and then using origami to unfold everything. From earth, this telescope could be accessed through everyday ham radios.

2. It doesn't actually replace the Hubble. Most people I know still want to see things in the visible spectrum, and IR fake images just don't cut it. This does not solve the visible spectrum issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

This is all sarcasm, modified from this infamous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetim... by treesknees on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:57PM (#29897754)

You had me fired up before I hit the last sentence. Well done, I should have recognized the infamous dropbox comment :)

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Re:NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetim... by malfist on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:36PM (#29898334)

Haha! Glad you enjoyed it. I thought I was too over the top with the large catapult as a launch system and HAM radio for telephony, but I guess people oversimplify/handwave worse details

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