NASA’s new gold-covered telescope will put the Hubble to shame (3 Viewers)

[SWC]

why will this be better just because it is shineier and golden here is a little something my momma taught me when i was little just because it glitters does not mean it is gold put that in your old knowlege pipe and smoke it brohans and when you do take it to the bank

I don't know, but I've been told, its hard to run with the weight of gold

Other times I've heard it said, its just as hard with the weight of lead

brohan those guys were a bunch of dirtbags it was like hey where did all the fleas go all of the sudden oh the dead are in town i guess that explains it take that to the take a shower bank bromigos 

 

[FUBAR]

This is for the people wondering why the telescope won't be able to see anything from those first 200 million years.

  I don't pay for excuses.

 

[Ignoramus]

why will this be better just because it is shineier and golden here is a little something my momma taught me when i was little just because it glitters does not mean it is gold put that in your old knowlege pipe and smoke it brohans and when you do take it to the bank

Did you even read the article, bropernicus?  It is gold. 

 

[MikeIke]

It's shocking that this came before President Trump's reign. 
 

this pisses me off.  I mean really, you're 98.5% there and you couldn't go a measly 200 million years further?  It's the cosmic equivalent of taking a kickoff to the 1 yard line and kneeling before crossing the event horizon, er goal line.

There were no stars for the first couple hundred million years. Just a bunch of energy, then hot particles. It took a while for things to cool down far enough for matter to form which could then form stars.

 

[Statcruncher]

There were no stars for the first couple hundred million years. Just a bunch of energy, then hot particles.

Just think of all the who's hottest polls we will be missing out on.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

brohan those guys were a bunch of dirtbags it was like hey where did all the fleas go all of the sudden oh the dead are in town i guess that explains it take that to the take a shower bank bromigos 

So, not your cup of tea.

 

[CBusAlex]

Did you even read the article, bropernicus?  It is gold. 

You could literally take that to the bank.

 

[SWC]

why will this be better just because it is shineier and golden here is a little something my momma taught me when i was little just because it glitters does not mean it is gold put that in your old knowlege pipe and smoke it brohans and when you do take it to the bank

Did you even read the article, bropernicus?  It is gold.

oh crap brohan this is not going how i wanted it to take that to the bank

 

[Chadstroma]

Why does NASA have to go gold to pimp their ride? Tacky.

 

[Statcruncher]

I'm more sad about them using beryllium. That could have been a set of the best clubs every made, Eye 2's.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

What's with the launch from French Guiana?  Isn't that where they launched Jodie Foster into time and space in that crappy movie she made with Mathew McConaughey?

Contact. not Failure to Launch

 

[jon_mx]

I'm not saying the telescope isn't fantastic and worthy of the efforts and funding.

What I am trying to do is to call everyone's attention to excessive government spending and you're all like "it's made of gold"  "it's made of beryllium"  "It's bigger than than the Hubble so it has to cost way more."  A ton of gold (I highly doubt there's a ton on this thing) cost about $65M.  Beryllium is a couple of hundred bucks a pound.  Let's call that $35M.  Where'd the other $8.79B go?  1,000 scientist making $500k each for 10 years is $5B.  Someone please justify the other $3.7B to me.

The price of steel costs about $450 per ton.  The parts in the car can't possibly costs more than $900.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Can't believe this costs more than a boat. Ridiculous.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Can't believe this costs more than a boat. Ridiculous.

We have lots of ships.  We don't have one of these.

I seem to remember shock at the cost of the Hubble, and then it was, initially, an abject failure.  Now scientist might tell you its the best money ever spent.  Also, do we describe the supercollider as a tunnel, if not why describe this as something Captain Jack Sparrow might keep in his breast pocket.  

 

[SameSongNDance]

Weren't we already able to detect light from a galaxy that formed 400 million years after the big bang? Will this telescope give us a legitimately detailed look as opposed to a blob?

 

[James Daulton]

The price of steel costs about $450 per ton.  The parts in the car can't possibly costs more than $900.

I know, right?

 

[James Daulton]

What's with the launch from French Guiana?  Isn't that where they launched Jodie Foster into time and space in that crappy movie she made with Mathew McConaughey?

Contact. not Failure to Launch

Watchu talkin bout Willis?

 

[MikeIke]

It will be like comparing a 17 inch color TV to a 70 inch 4k HD. 

 

[Billy Bats]

My dad has worked on this project since finishing his contract with the NIF, which uses the largest laser in the world to try to achieve fusion. It's amazing stuff. I'll see if he has any good stories he can share.

I'm sure he has awesome stories on a 7.2B budget overage.

Seriosuly though that's pretty cool, share some info if you can. 

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Watchu talkin bout Willis?

Whoops, were those toes I was stepping on?.  Sorry, I did not know appendages could be so large.

 

[jon_mx]

Just think of all the who's hottest polls we will be missing out on.

An IR telescope will finally give us true insight into who the hottest really is. . 

 

[Sand]

What's with the launch from French Guiana?  Isn't that where they launched Jodie Foster into time and space in that crappy movie she made with Mathew McConaughey?

Contact. not Failure to Launch

1.  Contact was an awesome movie.

2.  The launch is the European contribution to this effort.  They really couldn't do a lot of the technical work so this is what they came up with.  

 

[Mjolnirs]

 

[beer 30]

Love this stuff, $8b is a drop in the bucket, we'll just print more. Don't get caught up on the price tag, it's all relative. In another 20 years the price will be in trillions.

Of course in another 20 years we may all be gone, the planet overgrown as Mother Nature continues taking over after we have blown ourselves up so it may be a moot point.

 

[MikeIke]

Phil Plait has a little more information on how the telescope was built. The picture of the mirror with people standing around it looking tiny is pretty cool.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Given a choice between a telescope that can look into God's harem's yoga studio, a really nice aircraft carrier or battleship, a few more feet of height on a scaling wall for Mexican Outward Bound courses, or a really big hole in Boston I think I would go with peering into the yoga studio while God's favorites do a bit of hot yoga to keep things just so. 

 

[Hov34]

My dad has worked on this project since finishing his contract with the NIF, which uses the largest laser in the world to try to achieve fusion. It's amazing stuff. I'll see if he has any good stories he can share.

Thanks for sharing!

Oh, by the way.  How was bragging camp?
 

 

[CBusAlex]

An IR telescope will finally give us true insight into who the hottest really is. . 

The white dwarf HD62166 clocks in at 9.8 kilooffdees.