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How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble

Posted by samzenpus on from the bigger-and-badder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In cleanrooms around the country NASA and its contractors are building the James Webb Space Telescope, a marvel of engineering scheduled to launch in 2014. This gallery shows the features that will allow Webb to take the universe's baby pictures in infrared — most notably an 18-segment mirror and a 5-layer sunshield. I can't wait until Webb settles into its Lagrangian point way out beyond the moon and gets to work."

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  1. How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Put a bad toupee on a telescope.

  2. La Grange point by Hatta · · Score: 1, Funny

    They've got a lot of nice telescopes out there. Haw haw haw haw.

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  3. Re:Budget Cuts and the JWT by dkleinsc · · Score: 2, Funny

    While I recognize the U.S. is totally fucked, economically, this is a mistake. Throwing a minor budget item with huge potential like this under the bus in the name of pretending to become fiscally responsible is beyond short-sighted.

    The reason that's happened is that the US is totally fucked politically as well as economically.

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  4. "trumps Hubble" by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3, Funny

    OK, I have no productive contribution here, but the phrases "Hubble trumping" and "trouble humping" are now echoing through my head.