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  • Webb scope launch delayed again

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 21 14:45:25 2021
    But only for one day. I get the feeling maybe the White House may have had a hand in this, Joe Biden needs a rating's boost.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/world/james-webb-space-telescope-christmas-launch-delay-scn/index.html

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to RichA on Tue Dec 21 17:10:43 2021
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 2:45:26 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
    But only for one day. I get the feeling maybe the White House may have had a hand in this, Joe Biden needs a rating's boost.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/world/james-webb-space-telescope-christmas-launch-delay-scn/index.html

    Christmas day, eh?
    Everybody home, can watch the launch , while opening the gifts?
    How convenient?

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?fred__k._engels=C2=AE?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 21 17:18:40 2021
    Prime Minister Justin Blackface tweeted his condolences that due to adverse weather conditions at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, flight VA256 is being postponed.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to RichA on Tue Dec 21 22:09:44 2021
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 3:45:26 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    But only for one day. I get the feeling maybe the White House may have had a hand in this, Joe Biden needs a rating's boost.

    Joe Biden definitely _does_ need a ratings boost.

    But falsely claiming that there are weather conditions preventing a launch?
    No, there's no way they could keep something like that a secret. More bad weather may send them looking for a launch window on Boxing Day.

    Then it will be buried instead of happening when people are paying attention. If it survives to send pretty pictures back, then maybe Biden will get a very small
    ratings boost from it.

    But what he really needs is to find a way to get Joe Manchin to let him bribe the American taxpayer with his own money. An old tactic, but it seems no one has thought of anything better.

    John Savard

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Wed Dec 22 08:32:57 2021
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 10:09:46 PM UTC-8, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 3:45:26 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    But only for one day. I get the feeling maybe the White House may have had a hand in this, Joe Biden needs a rating's boost.
    Joe Biden definitely _does_ need a ratings boost.

    But falsely claiming that there are weather conditions preventing a launch? No, there's no way they could keep something like that a secret. More bad weather may send them looking for a launch window on Boxing Day.

    Then it will be buried instead of happening when people are paying attention.
    If it survives to send pretty pictures back, then maybe Biden will get a very small
    ratings boost from it.

    But what he really needs is to find a way to get Joe Manchin to let him bribe
    the American taxpayer with his own money. An old tactic, but it seems no one has thought of anything better.

    John Savard

    Biden will cut the ribbon before the launch!
    😎

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Sat Dec 25 03:46:21 2021
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:09:46 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

    If it survives to send pretty pictures back, then maybe Biden will get a very small
    ratings boost from it.

    Since the countdown is taking place as I write, the launch won't be delayed until people are out looking for Boxing Day deals.

    But it will be 29 days before the telescope arrives at L2, where it will complete
    deployment. And then it will take five months before the telescope can produce some initial images for public consumption, after all the mirrors have been manually aligned from Earth.

    In another month, then science operations will start.

    So it will be summer before there are pretty pictures.

    John Savard

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Sat Dec 25 04:01:33 2021
    On Saturday, 25 December 2021 at 06:46:23 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 11:09:46 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

    If it survives to send pretty pictures back, then maybe Biden will get a very small
    ratings boost from it.
    Since the countdown is taking place as I write, the launch won't be delayed until people are out looking for Boxing Day deals.

    But it will be 29 days before the telescope arrives at L2, where it will complete
    deployment. And then it will take five months before the telescope can produce
    some initial images for public consumption, after all the mirrors have been manually aligned from Earth.

    In another month, then science operations will start.

    So it will be summer before there are pretty pictures.

    John Savard

    Sky looks pretty ominous.

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