Saturday, February 12, 2022

BEYOND OUR PETTY PACE FROM DAY TO DAY

 



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The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed and is now 700,000 miles into its one-million mile destination: a gravity-neutral spot known as Lagrange Point – 2, where it will begin to orbit around the sun. 


The James Webb is the most powerful telescope ever built and will be capable of looking out to the very edge of the observable universe.   Astrophysicist and other scientist will be able to collect light from the first stars and galaxies that formed immediately after the Big Bang, 13.5 billion years ago.

 

The quest for knowledge is the one noble attribute of the human race.  Unfortunately, ignorance in the name of religions has always own the day and opposed any quest for enlightenment. (God forbid Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge.)  

 

What a duality the human race is.  There are complete morons willing to riot as cult members of a con-man looking to maintain political power; and on the opposite extreme there are scientist probing the very question of existence.  

the Ol’Buzzard

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3 comments:

  1. Yeah, humans go from one extreme to the other, don't we?

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  2. I was so happy when the satellite launch went well, happier yet when all those panels and shields deployed. I hope once it's set-up and calibration is finished (expected to take a few months?) that it provides even more sciencey goodness and surprises than expected, as Hubble did and still does.

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  3. we have science and space and then the dickheads drinking their own urine.

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COMMENT: Ben Franklin said, "I imagine a man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false."