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Re:Space Elevator by hinkley on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:42PM (#45658908)
God bless the Webb team but if a manager came to me to pitch a software project with as many sequential events that had to go perfect I would have told him to fuck right off. After I stopped laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.

I made a pikachu face when they returned the first image.

Re:Space Elevator by seg_lol on Sunday October 26, 2025 @08:11AM (#45711114)
It is unbelievable really. That team should do some things on earth, like fix healthcare or implement a national rail system.
Re:Space Elevator by rkomorn on Sunday October 26, 2025 @08:14AM (#45711141)
It's probably a lot simpler to get something to a Lagrange point, unfortunately.

Way fewer variables.