@GreatAgentD You can't imagine how much of a pain atmo is for land based telescopes. Particularly for infrared observations. It almost completely blocks the IR wavelenghts.
@derekdean100 I would be excited for there to be alien life discovered but until there is concrete evidence we can't know for sure. However I do believe humanity is slightly more advanced technology wise than the public is led to believe.
@derekdean100 Btw we can't confirm there is actually life there because we can't observe those planets directly yet. We can only tell that the planets are there and how big they are and how far away they are from there star. Even this telescope can't it can only view the planets in infared plus These agencies are not completely government run and there's no reason to even hide evidence of aliens. Face it we haven't found them yet.
We saw this in a video at the planetarium at National Space Centre Leicester England. It's going to be amazing. We will see so much more than ever before. The design is amazing. Just hope it doesnt go wrong out there because its going to be so so so far away from Earth than what Hubble is now.
Rio de Janeiro. I´m admirer of the space explorations. I ask for like this the all citizens of the it USA that they help to save James Webb of the cuts of budget of his Congress. Hear the video below. Help to save the humanity's eyes. And spread for his/her compatriots.
They don't have 8 Billion $ for this baby but 3000 Billion for war ? If those 3 trillion dollars spent on war in Afghanistan & Iraq were spent on space exploration, We would have already launched it from Mars.
This world should stop "play" (warfare) and use the huge amounts of money to the exploitation & scientifically research of the universe! There is so much out there, the universe is everything and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, religious, atheist or whatever, because every human is born with curiosity and that's what matters. I hope I can live long enough to see they very extend of mankind. Who's with me?!
@gurra1351 To obtain knowledge is the most human instinct there is, that's what we do: fish swim, birds fly, cheetahs run, and we gather and share data and develop and utilize tools. This is simply the latest phase in a process that began when we first learned how to break a piece of flint to make a sharp thing that was good for cutting things.
We can't afford spend to billions or even millions on space explaration and science but we sure can afford to spend trillions of our grandchildrens money killing people oceans away. Every one of these wars went over budget but I don't see us scrapping them. I have no problem with private industry either, they took my tax money too... where ARE they? The Hubble has been the best "Bang-for-buck" deal NASA ever did and now we want to scrap the Webb? Might as well scrap NASA and leave it all!
It makes me sick that the US gov would rather spend money on killing people overseas rather than finish the development of the JWST. If it is canceled I will have no more hope for our country.
@MolotovSolution117 after all they've already done in it's development. I don't see how the hell they can just from finishing the project. IT was over budget from the initial proposal though. And alot of the project was mismanaged. If they can just restructure it. and continue on with the project. Then i be happy :D
@fpsd0minat0r its technologically possible, just not financially possible although a Japanese company wants to turn the moon into a solar energy collector, google search ''japanese firm to transform the moon'' and you should find it.
i wonder if they have a procedure to bring the telescope back for repairs if something goes wrong? or is it just going to orbit ouit there doing nothing?
@cjms08 No backup for this big boy. We are trying a whole slew of things for that first time; like unfolding a multi-billion dollar origami satelite by remote to orbit a spacetime eddy of the earth's further out than any human has ever gone. If it fails(and there's a REAL chance it might), it's the biggest failure nasa has EVER had. Let's hope, pray to god, cross our fingers, rub our rabbits feet and sacrifice to ganesh that this one's a triumph.
@Mandelbrotmat what does ganesh take as sacrifice? because i get paid at the end of the month i'll go buy a cow, mual,goat,cat or mouse what ever ganesh wants ganesh gets lol.
@cjms08 believe it or not, an offering of 108 different types of leaves, and/or bananas is prefered by the mighty hindu elephant-god of success (nix the cow idea). XD!
I hate it when they keep changing narrators. Choose one and stick with it, than show clips from interviews with scientists. Don't make a scientist narrate for you.
Cool telescope. I find it ironic/borderline sad the CGI artists decided to put ENORMOUS optic distortion to the main mirror to increase visual appeal of the animation.
@alexpro00red3 What would really suck is if it made the journey safely, unfolded flawlessly, but couldnt take images because some dumbass forgot to take the lense cover off the camera :)
wish we could all unite, no differences between us, no race nor religion to seperate the true direction. Imagin how much we could achieve, the example that we would set for the next generation. Shame we can't get along.......
While I'm pretty critical of the empirical fact that the the US citizenry is unwilling to spend any more than $1 per week per capita on space science, the European community is even worse. Far worse. The JWST budget calls for the US to foot $4.2B of the bill. ESA is responsible for $0.3B. I have great respect for the Herschel IR, Planck CBR, XMM-Newton X-Ray, and other ESA endeavors. But please either stop tacking "/ESA" onto every project you contribute a penny to, or ante up some real funding.
@evgtun "how do they know in which direction to point the telescope to hit the big bang?"
There is no direction in which to point to hit the Big Bang. You are thinking of the BB as being a sort of explosion of matter into space. In fact, all the matter which exists in our Universe existed from the time of the BB. Space *itself* expanded. And continues to expand. Uniformly. Everywhere. Every point receding from every other, proportional to the distance. Ponder. But ask if you don't understand.
How can the space *itself* expand? Do you even know what you are saying? First WHAT IS space and then how it expands exactly???
What happens to the Plank length when "the space expands"?
What happens to a particle when space is "created" (whatever that means) inside it?
When underground pipe bursts the emerging pond on the surface seems to be growing/expanding with no apparent reason. I speculate the big bang rupture is still opened and more "space"(???) is pouring through it
Yes. There's nothing controversial about it. It's straight GR, post-Hubble Law. The Planck length stays the same. Particle sizes remain constant. Structures bound by forces (atoms, planets, stars, galaxies, clusters) remain the same size. Have a look at: astro . ucla . edu /~wright/cosmolog.htm (remove the spaces)
Check out his main page to assure yourself that he's legit. And enjoy the new horizons which I suspect are about to open up for you.
@gespilk Oops. The link in my previous post was pretty close. But here is the correct one that takes you right to Professor Wright's Cosmology Tutorial:
Gas, liquids, even solid bodies expand. Usually "to expand" is defined as less of something per volume of SPACE. Now when you say that space *itself* expands it is as to create a circular definition of a kind (less space per volume of space?). What is Space?
Many years ago as student when I said in class "I do not understand what is mass?" I was laughed at. 20 years later it turn out we do not really know for sure what gives mass to particles.
@gespilk We've known from the beginning of QM that we didn't know for sure what gives particles mass. What's happening now is that we are finally to the point we can test Higg's hypothesis for it. If you don't mind, I'll PM you since this is really hard to explain in 500 char chunks.
We should have this project on overdrive, and send 10 of these things out there. Or rather 100 of these. This is what mankind should focus on. We need science, we need information.
We have to go to space, and we have to do it before we use last of the oil to burn rubber of some stupid parking lot.
@abcpete1 thats rather unfortunate :/ we're still a one planet species and if Dr.Stephen Hawking is to be believed; that fact alone poses a great risk to the survival of humanity.
I bet humanity (and specifically the U.S.) would have thriving colonies on the moon and Mars by now with human missions to Europa and Titan, if NASA had even a fifth of the military's budget :(
@FreedomLiberty21 Stephen Hawking is a good theoretical cosmologist. Other theoretical cosmologists have made greater contributions. But Hawking has managed to do pretty well without the ability to write things down or scribble diagrams. He's crippled and smart. Hence his fascination with the general public.
Humanity's greatest dangers emanate from within humanity. They follow us wherever we go. To the moon. Mars. The Centauri System. Beyond. You can't get away from it. hose are the facts.
All this information we will be getting from this telescope is utterly useless to 99.9% of man kind.The only people benefitting from this is the people who work for these space agencies.Scientists,Engineers,and some outsourced part making.The money that is spent when the USA's economy is going down the dumper,as well as the other countries.How will this help man kind other then knowledge of things we cannot control anyway because of the vast distances in space?Exotic energy for us here on Earth?
Wow! Can't wait to hear about more of our wonderfull universe's secrets. Why don't we all demand our governments to half our military budgets and spend it on space exploration. We waste Billions a year in many countries on keeping armies when in this day and age we shouldn't really need them. We could have starships by now if we had spent the global defence budget since WW2 on space research. when I was a kid at school they said we will have a base on the moon by 2000 I am still waiting!!!
@Haseeebo I would Like to see a global army run by the United Nations and Nato plus China and Russia and some of the emerging economies to police the planet this could be done by reducing each countries forces to just 10% but when combined it would still be an enourmous Army/World Police force then the remaining 90% of the money they would of spent could go 50-50 to feed the poor and explore and colonise the soloar system - and yes churches should pay tax as well!
@Haseeebo I would also like to see a large moon city built with samples of all species of life from this planet and it should also be heavily armed (there could be hostile species out there!) also the arms could avert global catastrophe's such as comets and asteroids etc. also if any rogue state on the planet gets out of line then the threat of a lunar to earth strike would keep them in line so as to make the world more peacefull.
interesting...you're previous post seems to contradict the original I replied to. But I notice that the original was posted 8 months ago...guess you had a change of heart :)
@ JmSantos - that looks like a Latino name. Is the J for Jesus (Hay-Zues). I mean really where do you guys get off naming your children after The Christ anyway?
No you fucking idiot. I'm saying if he did really exist he was an idiot who believed his whore mother and the story she came up with to hide the fact she was being fucked by the milk man or something. "Oh, the holy spirit was here and now I'm pregnant from god." Come on, give me a break! Stupid idiots!
@frags1 Oh, and BTW Oooh, I'm sooo scared. What are you going to do? hack my computer and make it shock me to death? Or maybe you're just going to ask your imaginary friend to smite me, cos that's just the way he rools. FU!
The endless possibilities of the unknown universe is worth investing in, even if our generation may never experience the benefits. Every generation owes it to the next to do there part for humanity as a whole.
I never say this but: OMG! this telescope has me giggling like a high school girl, and salivating at the mouth. I can't wait for the promising future of this awesome tool.
If indeed delivers things as revealing as Hubble, I just don't think I can even imagine what that would be like. Scientists putting observatories in space which can see the very birth of our universe, and it's most fundamental secrets. Not too shabby for a bunch of bipedal mostly hairless hominids!
Our future depends on exploring space. The earths resources are being used up making Sony radios, cell phones and big screen tvs for everyone. Just to make a few people rich. The earth isn't going to last forever and there needs to be a lot more effort put into things like this than there is.
We'll easily be star-borne before resources are exhausted. We are highly innovative and create new products from new substances with every century.
Now... self-destruction via nuclear winter, overpopulation, meteor extinction... that's what we ought to worry most about, a sudden, premature obliteration of the habitability of our own planet.
neonsilkworm wrote - We'll easily be star-borne before resources are exhausted. I'm not at all convinced that interstellar travel will ever be practical. However if we consider the resources of the entire solar system there may be enough to last practically forever. I'm with DDTrampled here - lets get off this planet and start taking advantage of the resources and opportunities in space. For example moving mining and manufacturing into space would greatly benefit the earthly environment.
OMG! l'm so excited! l can't wait to see what the JWST will bring to the world of science! Now l'm even more excited to get my degree (Physics) and get to work! The JWST will be an invaluable instrument to astronomy; but that doesn't mean Hubble won't be my first love. ^_^
@ pointCOUNTERpoint01 I know that and you know that but how often do corporations invest money in pure research that is not directed specifically at something that think will make a profit in the near future? So, I think my point remains valid. The free market isn't going to fund something like this, or LHC.
YouTube comments are too limited, so I'll give you a gist. Free markets would guarantee only beneficial research is conducted. Should we care if water/simple life is on Titan? Probably not anytime soon. Is it cool to know? Absolutely! For scientists and enthusiasts.
It would maximize efficiency of research and resources. Most of all, it would remove the coercion of tax dollars spent on projects the gov't is not authorized to conduct (10th amendment).
neonsilkworm wrote - Free markets would guarantee only beneficial research is conducted.
I'm sure you are right. Beneficial defined by the corporation conducting the research. You never really know what research will be beneficial and in what way it will be beneficial until after it is conducted. Can you show me any research ever conducted by the free market that was not driven by the profit motive?
Beneficial = profitable, absolutely. A company invests in research which will bring it future profits, through products and services which the market values. If the people do not desire it or the company cannot create the desire through marketing, such research would be a sunk cost.
If the benefit MAY only be realized after the costs are incurred, this is basically gambling, and very few investors are interested in such risk. This is why a solid rationale and profit motive is so important.
neonsilkworm I have no quarrel with anything you've said in this comment. But it does bring us back to my original comment to you - free market would have no interest in funding something like this telescope, and you have explained why this is true - no profit in it. And I think research of this nature should be done.
Nikbookworm: The funny - sad part is that there is surely great wealth to be had in space. Whole other planets worth of resources! Asteroids loaded with metals! Eternal space-based solar power! The problem is that all these things will require an enormous investment in development and engineering with many many years before the investment is payed back and profits can be made. Try going to an investor and saying "spend lots of money your whole life so that your grandchildren will be rich".
I think this folding mirror could reduce costs for earth bound telescopes by mass production of smaller mirrors being fitted together to make a larger mirror.
Why does it have severely warped and wavey mirrors in the renderings? I can get smoother mirrors at the home improvement store. Those things will be polished smooth to the sub-micron level.
What'sthe music at 5:25?
rehzon 9 hours ago
ITS A TRAP!!!!!!!!!
iCanHazTwentyLetters 1 day ago
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nbaietti 2 weeks ago
its going to be released in 218 i now because one of the workers for it came to tell us about it and gave stuff about it
dracoking1300 1 month ago
6.5 meters? Don't we already have quite a few around 10m here on Earth? Does the atmosphere mess things that big? o_O
GreatAgentD 1 month ago
@GreatAgentD You can't imagine how much of a pain atmo is for land based telescopes. Particularly for infrared observations. It almost completely blocks the IR wavelenghts.
lurion 1 month ago
@lurion Interesting... Thanks for answering :p
GreatAgentD 1 month ago
Fire the particle cannon!
makjep 1 month ago
I can only thing of one single reason for the 10 dislikes ... and that's the biatch with funny posture and funny clothing
ammaifostpeaici 1 month ago
@derekdean100 I would be excited for there to be alien life discovered but until there is concrete evidence we can't know for sure. However I do believe humanity is slightly more advanced technology wise than the public is led to believe.
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I wish I could have live feed to see what this thing see's 24/7...... WHY!!! I Just want to see things with my own eyes for once!!!
MadeInOregon27 2 months ago
I wish I could have live feed to see what this thing see's 24/7...... WHY!!!!!!!! I Just want to see things with my own eyes for once!!!!!!!
MadeInOregon27 2 months ago
So they will launch it not 2014 but 2018, what a bummer... Will Hubble last, till these guys get another spacetelescope flying... s;
aluniras 2 months ago
@derekdean100 Btw we can't confirm there is actually life there because we can't observe those planets directly yet. We can only tell that the planets are there and how big they are and how far away they are from there star. Even this telescope can't it can only view the planets in infared plus These agencies are not completely government run and there's no reason to even hide evidence of aliens. Face it we haven't found them yet.
MrAwesomesauce101 2 months ago
@derekdean100 Who taught you English grammar?
MrAwesomesauce101 2 months ago
Rebecca Barnes don´t step on it with those heels!
londonblock 3 months ago
I have the weirdest hard-on!!!
hallowedbeeddie 3 months ago
@derekdean100 Your tinfoil hat called - it needs more foil
renegade1179 3 months ago
We saw this in a video at the planetarium at National Space Centre Leicester England. It's going to be amazing. We will see so much more than ever before. The design is amazing. Just hope it doesnt go wrong out there because its going to be so so so far away from Earth than what Hubble is now.
RosbifFrog 4 months ago
It reminds me of a Star Destroyer.
CynicalVision 4 months ago
I just read the good news, it's not been cancelled. :)
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aczjbr 4 months ago
They don't have 8 Billion $ for this baby but 3000 Billion for war ? If those 3 trillion dollars spent on war in Afghanistan & Iraq were spent on space exploration, We would have already launched it from Mars.
gnabeel 4 months ago
is this still scheduled to go up? If so when? I was looking at wiki it said stuff about it being cancelled..
If we'd just stop going to war so often we could afford this and most.
IcyScythe 4 months ago
@IcyScythe its not cancelled
Ichliebegermany 4 months ago
No kiddin man this guy sound like Tony Montana.
WARFARENINJA 4 months ago
if we stop giving aids to pakistan, we can fund JWST..
I am curious to find out the origin of out universe and many more THINGS in the space.
GK007001 5 months ago
Has anyone noticed the "design"? It's beautiful, we're already sending flowers to space!
MrLucascanuto 5 months ago
Nice video...except her legs wide spread were bit distracting
garysaran 5 months ago
This world should stop "play" (warfare) and use the huge amounts of money to the exploitation & scientifically research of the universe! There is so much out there, the universe is everything and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, religious, atheist or whatever, because every human is born with curiosity and that's what matters. I hope I can live long enough to see they very extend of mankind. Who's with me?!
gurra1351 6 months ago
@gurra1351 To obtain knowledge is the most human instinct there is, that's what we do: fish swim, birds fly, cheetahs run, and we gather and share data and develop and utilize tools. This is simply the latest phase in a process that began when we first learned how to break a piece of flint to make a sharp thing that was good for cutting things.
yerk3 5 months ago
русские идут!
Ruslancer 7 months ago
Is it true there thinking about cancelling the launch ? This isn't like Hubble the American only had a helping hand it it's dev
7orqu3 7 months ago
I wonder why they wouldn't name anything after Wernher von Braun?
iliyaDZ 7 months ago
Just FYI, the tea party is try to get rid of this program.
0mega101 7 months ago
I dont think she should be standing on the heat sheild like that with high heels on....
jgrimmier 7 months ago
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We can't afford spend to billions or even millions on space explaration and science but we sure can afford to spend trillions of our grandchildrens money killing people oceans away. Every one of these wars went over budget but I don't see us scrapping them. I have no problem with private industry either, they took my tax money too... where ARE they? The Hubble has been the best "Bang-for-buck" deal NASA ever did and now we want to scrap the Webb? Might as well scrap NASA and leave it all!
astrofrk 8 months ago
Republican led house wants to defund the James Webb Space Telescope
all over the science forums and news. Google it
Demingosan 8 months ago
@Demingosan It's because they're scared that the telescope will see beyond the universe and reveal the Flying Spaghetti Monster instead of their god.
TheChristChris 8 months ago 17
It makes me sick that the US gov would rather spend money on killing people overseas rather than finish the development of the JWST. If it is canceled I will have no more hope for our country.
MolotovSolution117 8 months ago 3
@MolotovSolution117 after all they've already done in it's development. I don't see how the hell they can just from finishing the project. IT was over budget from the initial proposal though. And alot of the project was mismanaged. If they can just restructure it. and continue on with the project. Then i be happy :D
tehatemachine 7 months ago
Congress wants to pass a bill that will terminate funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. :(
facebook(dot)com/SaveJWST
This project costs less money than we spend on wars per week.
stickerbrush827 8 months ago
It's a shame that this telescope has been cut. When Hubble dies and if the JWST isn't out there, then we are truly blind.
runawayuniverse 8 months ago 2
The 2012 House Appropriations Committee has cancelled the James Webb Space telescope project.
aaronhoffmeyer 8 months ago
Could of got someone fit? Lucky im not looking at her but the amazingly trim telescope! WOW Amazing Amazingnous!
BuzzJunkey87 9 months ago
why dont we just take massive mirrors to the moon one by one then construct a giant telescope there like a few hundred meters wide?
fpsd0minat0r 10 months ago
@fpsd0minat0r its technologically possible, just not financially possible although a Japanese company wants to turn the moon into a solar energy collector, google search ''japanese firm to transform the moon'' and you should find it.
GozersApprentice 9 months ago
@fpsd0minat0r Not expensive but a real headache for NASA.
4FunPlayin 8 months ago
i wonder if they have a procedure to bring the telescope back for repairs if something goes wrong? or is it just going to orbit ouit there doing nothing?
cjms08 11 months ago
@cjms08 No backup for this big boy. We are trying a whole slew of things for that first time; like unfolding a multi-billion dollar origami satelite by remote to orbit a spacetime eddy of the earth's further out than any human has ever gone. If it fails(and there's a REAL chance it might), it's the biggest failure nasa has EVER had. Let's hope, pray to god, cross our fingers, rub our rabbits feet and sacrifice to ganesh that this one's a triumph.
Mandelbrotmat 11 months ago
@Mandelbrotmat what does ganesh take as sacrifice? because i get paid at the end of the month i'll go buy a cow, mual,goat,cat or mouse what ever ganesh wants ganesh gets lol.
cjms08 11 months ago
@cjms08 believe it or not, an offering of 108 different types of leaves, and/or bananas is prefered by the mighty hindu elephant-god of success (nix the cow idea). XD!
Mandelbrotmat 11 months ago
@Mandelbrotmat DAMN I was all pumped up to go animal shopping now all i got to do is go outside
cjms08 11 months ago
I hate it when they keep changing narrators. Choose one and stick with it, than show clips from interviews with scientists. Don't make a scientist narrate for you.
Airclot 1 year ago
Cool telescope. I find it ironic/borderline sad the CGI artists decided to put ENORMOUS optic distortion to the main mirror to increase visual appeal of the animation.
KarriKoivusalo 1 year ago
when is it due to launch?
taphoenix 1 year ago
@taphoenix In 2014 or 2015...
FreakazoidDK33 1 year ago
it would suck if something went wrong while it was unfolding...
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demo2382 4 months ago
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@alexpro00red3 What would really suck is if it made the journey safely, unfolded flawlessly, but couldnt take images because some dumbass forgot to take the lense cover off the camera :)
demo2382 4 months ago
I hope I live to see the images that will be produced from this wonderful piece of technology!
cipher2 1 year ago
All mirror telescopes are encapsulated in a tube of some kind. Why this one is not?
I have a feeling there is going to be a problem with reflections from sources that are not in the direction of the telescope.
gespilk 1 year ago
wish we could all unite, no differences between us, no race nor religion to seperate the true direction. Imagin how much we could achieve, the example that we would set for the next generation. Shame we can't get along.......
Ksixstring 1 year ago
@Ksixstring
I hear you. Now we have to agree what/which is "the true direction".
Thank god we are so different in our directions. That means at least some of us may survive.
gespilk 1 year ago
While I'm pretty critical of the empirical fact that the the US citizenry is unwilling to spend any more than $1 per week per capita on space science, the European community is even worse. Far worse. The JWST budget calls for the US to foot $4.2B of the bill. ESA is responsible for $0.3B. I have great respect for the Herschel IR, Planck CBR, XMM-Newton X-Ray, and other ESA endeavors. But please either stop tacking "/ESA" onto every project you contribute a penny to, or ante up some real funding.
sbergman27 1 year ago
how do they know in which direction to point the telescope to hit the big bang?
evgtun 1 year ago
@evgtun "how do they know in which direction to point the telescope to hit the big bang?"
There is no direction in which to point to hit the Big Bang. You are thinking of the BB as being a sort of explosion of matter into space. In fact, all the matter which exists in our Universe existed from the time of the BB. Space *itself* expanded. And continues to expand. Uniformly. Everywhere. Every point receding from every other, proportional to the distance. Ponder. But ask if you don't understand.
sbergman27 1 year ago
@sbergman27
How can the space *itself* expand? Do you even know what you are saying? First WHAT IS space and then how it expands exactly???
What happens to the Plank length when "the space expands"?
What happens to a particle when space is "created" (whatever that means) inside it?
When underground pipe bursts the emerging pond on the surface seems to be growing/expanding with no apparent reason. I speculate the big bang rupture is still opened and more "space"(???) is pouring through it
gespilk 1 year ago
@gespilk "Do you even know what you are saying?"
Yes. There's nothing controversial about it. It's straight GR, post-Hubble Law. The Planck length stays the same. Particle sizes remain constant. Structures bound by forces (atoms, planets, stars, galaxies, clusters) remain the same size. Have a look at: astro . ucla . edu /~wright/cosmolog.htm (remove the spaces)
Check out his main page to assure yourself that he's legit. And enjoy the new horizons which I suspect are about to open up for you.
sbergman27 1 year ago
@gespilk Oops. The link in my previous post was pretty close. But here is the correct one that takes you right to Professor Wright's Cosmology Tutorial:
astro . ucla . edu /~wright/cosmo_01.htm
-Steve Bergman
sbergman27 1 year ago
@sbergman27
Gas, liquids, even solid bodies expand. Usually "to expand" is defined as less of something per volume of SPACE. Now when you say that space *itself* expands it is as to create a circular definition of a kind (less space per volume of space?). What is Space?
Many years ago as student when I said in class "I do not understand what is mass?" I was laughed at. 20 years later it turn out we do not really know for sure what gives mass to particles.
How strings fit with expanding space?
gespilk 1 year ago
@gespilk We've known from the beginning of QM that we didn't know for sure what gives particles mass. What's happening now is that we are finally to the point we can test Higg's hypothesis for it. If you don't mind, I'll PM you since this is really hard to explain in 500 char chunks.
sbergman27 1 year ago
We should have this project on overdrive, and send 10 of these things out there. Or rather 100 of these. This is what mankind should focus on. We need science, we need information.
We have to go to space, and we have to do it before we use last of the oil to burn rubber of some stupid parking lot.
bary1234 1 year ago
can someone tell me when this telescope is going to be launched?
bbrs89 1 year ago
@bbrs89
Its planned to be launched between 2014 and 2015
muchufoo 1 year ago
this is for all you idiots claiming we spend too much money on exploring space
National budget and spenditure 2010-
NASA- $18 billion (around 0.6% of total budget)
Military-$782 billion (around 23%)
medicare-$676 billion (around 20%)
the government spends very little on exploring space if you think about it
abcpete1 1 year ago 3
@abcpete1 thats rather unfortunate :/ we're still a one planet species and if Dr.Stephen Hawking is to be believed; that fact alone poses a great risk to the survival of humanity.
I bet humanity (and specifically the U.S.) would have thriving colonies on the moon and Mars by now with human missions to Europa and Titan, if NASA had even a fifth of the military's budget :(
We would be living in an incredible Age of Wonder
FreedomLiberty21 1 year ago
@FreedomLiberty21 Stephen Hawking is a good theoretical cosmologist. Other theoretical cosmologists have made greater contributions. But Hawking has managed to do pretty well without the ability to write things down or scribble diagrams. He's crippled and smart. Hence his fascination with the general public.
Humanity's greatest dangers emanate from within humanity. They follow us wherever we go. To the moon. Mars. The Centauri System. Beyond. You can't get away from it. hose are the facts.
sbergman27 1 year ago
can somebody tell this woman to put her hands in the pockets?!
chrispatyna 1 year ago
All this information we will be getting from this telescope is utterly useless to 99.9% of man kind.The only people benefitting from this is the people who work for these space agencies.Scientists,Engineers,and some outsourced part making.The money that is spent when the USA's economy is going down the dumper,as well as the other countries.How will this help man kind other then knowledge of things we cannot control anyway because of the vast distances in space?Exotic energy for us here on Earth?
demmylowther 1 year ago
@demmylowther Another thing,is the USA footing most of the bill for this as usual?
How about designing space hotels where rich people can spend their money,and put more types of people to work !
demmylowther 1 year ago
@demmylowther : How about spotting big meteorites coming towards the Earth before one of them kills all life on this planet?
Might that be beneficial even for your candyass?? Some might think it is even crucial, or perhaps most important study imaginable?
Everybodys economy is going down the drain, because of human overpopulation on this tiny planet.
bary1234 1 year ago
Pfff, that are a lot of moving parts. Hope everything goes right and nothing gets stucK.
JustWonderingHowToDo 1 year ago
Big mistake at 1:00. The stars are passing in front of the Earth.
VirDiligo 1 year ago
I don't know about yall, but I rather be on a spaceship.then be dead from a meteor.
Smoke00777 1 year ago
stick with science guys... soon we will be able to populate space. Then we can leave the morons to kill each other alone
nuksucow1983 1 year ago
@nuksucow1983 lol
british123able 1 year ago
Why don't we invest money in making probes that we can stick up the arses of aliens? hmmmmm............
BrightEbony 1 year ago
@BrightEbony if youre testing them. dumbass.
lynxie23 1 year ago
Wow! Can't wait to hear about more of our wonderfull universe's secrets. Why don't we all demand our governments to half our military budgets and spend it on space exploration. We waste Billions a year in many countries on keeping armies when in this day and age we shouldn't really need them. We could have starships by now if we had spent the global defence budget since WW2 on space research. when I was a kid at school they said we will have a base on the moon by 2000 I am still waiting!!!
davidanthonymitchell 1 year ago 64
@davidanthonymitchell Better yet, chop off tax exempt religious institutions...damn leeches >:o
Haseeebo 9 months ago
@Haseeebo I would Like to see a global army run by the United Nations and Nato plus China and Russia and some of the emerging economies to police the planet this could be done by reducing each countries forces to just 10% but when combined it would still be an enourmous Army/World Police force then the remaining 90% of the money they would of spent could go 50-50 to feed the poor and explore and colonise the soloar system - and yes churches should pay tax as well!
davidanthonymitchell 9 months ago
@Haseeebo I would also like to see a large moon city built with samples of all species of life from this planet and it should also be heavily armed (there could be hostile species out there!) also the arms could avert global catastrophe's such as comets and asteroids etc. also if any rogue state on the planet gets out of line then the threat of a lunar to earth strike would keep them in line so as to make the world more peacefull.
davidanthonymitchell 9 months ago
@davidanthonymitchell That seems like it's dripping with sarcasm. In any case, I'll leave you with an interesting quote...
"If you want peace, go to war"
~Joseph Stalin
Haseeebo 9 months ago
@Haseeebo I honestly was not being sarcastic - I Guess I am a political Idealist who loves space and would like to see it explored!
davidanthonymitchell 9 months ago
@davidanthonymitchell o.O
interesting...you're previous post seems to contradict the original I replied to. But I notice that the original was posted 8 months ago...guess you had a change of heart :)
Haseeebo 9 months ago
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airplanekid333 7 months ago
@davidanthonymitchell congress is planning on cancelling it
claton95 5 months ago
Can't wait to see all the sights that this will bring to us.
WashingMachine0 1 year ago
Excellent replacement for Hubble.
mrmaciejm 1 year ago
@ JmSantos - that looks like a Latino name. Is the J for Jesus (Hay-Zues). I mean really where do you guys get off naming your children after The Christ anyway?
jasoncraig1978 1 year ago
Can anyone understand what the guy at :40 is saying? Mumble much?
brmadman4455 1 year ago
Jesus! Where?. No,No,No, That's just Santa Claus.
sleighman100 1 year ago
Jesus! Where?. No,No,No, That's just Santa Claus.
sleighman100 1 year ago
atheists r usually closet cases.
MrHeadlessmusician 1 year ago
its a weapon of mass destruction
Thr33pladdy 1 year ago
is bad that im well exited about this :S
charlieschneider123 1 year ago
why not the james woods :/ .... or james earl jones. :D
IHateYourFaceYo 1 year ago
Canada has a space program??!!?
darketernal3 1 year ago 3
@darketernal3 lol
IHateYourFaceYo 1 year ago
@darketernal3 Yes they've even built a giant space arm very useful for many space missions
2CSST2 1 year ago
@darketernal3
Canada made the Canada Arm which is used on the Space Shuttle. :)
IIXCygnusXII 1 year ago
Can't wait until this launches. The pictures and data we will get will be incredible.
unitedfc99 1 year ago 4
jmsantos78 are u saying Jesus isent smart U LITTLE FUCK I WILL KILL YOU
and DDT is right
frags1 1 year ago
@frags1
No you fucking idiot. I'm saying if he did really exist he was an idiot who believed his whore mother and the story she came up with to hide the fact she was being fucked by the milk man or something. "Oh, the holy spirit was here and now I'm pregnant from god." Come on, give me a break! Stupid idiots!
JmSantos78 1 year ago
@frags1 Oh, and BTW Oooh, I'm sooo scared. What are you going to do? hack my computer and make it shock me to death? Or maybe you're just going to ask your imaginary friend to smite me, cos that's just the way he rools. FU!
JmSantos78 1 year ago
@frags1 Correction. Not rools, rolls.
JmSantos78 1 year ago
Thats some very smart shit right there ;)
DeeDub02 1 year ago
Looking forward to all the spectacular information
naybobdenod 1 year ago
I wish I were born 5000 years from now.
micoscopic 1 year ago 4
The endless possibilities of the unknown universe is worth investing in, even if our generation may never experience the benefits. Every generation owes it to the next to do there part for humanity as a whole.
micoscopic 1 year ago 2
I never say this but: OMG! this telescope has me giggling like a high school girl, and salivating at the mouth. I can't wait for the promising future of this awesome tool.
If indeed delivers things as revealing as Hubble, I just don't think I can even imagine what that would be like. Scientists putting observatories in space which can see the very birth of our universe, and it's most fundamental secrets. Not too shabby for a bunch of bipedal mostly hairless hominids!
grimwatcher 1 year ago 4
OMG! That is amazing!
ZinayH 1 year ago
1:23am Thursday (CDT) - Time in Mississippi, United States of America
DoubleDutchBust 1 year ago
Awesome...
procyon000 2 years ago
Our future depends on exploring space. The earths resources are being used up making Sony radios, cell phones and big screen tvs for everyone. Just to make a few people rich. The earth isn't going to last forever and there needs to be a lot more effort put into things like this than there is.
DDTrampled 2 years ago 68
We'll easily be star-borne before resources are exhausted. We are highly innovative and create new products from new substances with every century.
Now... self-destruction via nuclear winter, overpopulation, meteor extinction... that's what we ought to worry most about, a sudden, premature obliteration of the habitability of our own planet.
neonsilkworm 2 years ago
neonsilkworm wrote - We'll easily be star-borne before resources are exhausted. I'm not at all convinced that interstellar travel will ever be practical. However if we consider the resources of the entire solar system there may be enough to last practically forever. I'm with DDTrampled here - lets get off this planet and start taking advantage of the resources and opportunities in space. For example moving mining and manufacturing into space would greatly benefit the earthly environment.
Ansonidak 2 years ago
@DDTrampled the earth is fine moron but we still need to go ino space duh
FIGHTFANNERD3 1 year ago
@DDTrampled : Right you are, sir.
bary1234 1 year ago
Got u JWSt and really u r awesome...But be on time to perform duties..
good luck!!! :))
tarinorchid 2 years ago
omg somebody strap a rocket on my ass and blast me up there.
tubester4567 2 years ago
OMG! l'm so excited! l can't wait to see what the JWST will bring to the world of science! Now l'm even more excited to get my degree (Physics) and get to work! The JWST will be an invaluable instrument to astronomy; but that doesn't mean Hubble won't be my first love. ^_^
SilentWisdomReborn 2 years ago 2
It's tough being a libertarian and a science enthusiast.
Can't support stealing money from everyone to subsidize these programs, yet when I see them come together, it's very exciting.
I'll bet a free market could do even better :)
neonsilkworm 2 years ago
I don't get libertarianism - could you message me saying why you think it would work?
You just don't seem like a lot of the dumbasses I come across.
purplefuzzythings 2 years ago
Why would the free market do anything like this? there is no profit in it.
Ansonidak 2 years ago
@Ansonidak There is profit in knowledge.
pointCOUNTERpoint01 2 years ago
@ pointCOUNTERpoint01 I know that and you know that but how often do corporations invest money in pure research that is not directed specifically at something that think will make a profit in the near future? So, I think my point remains valid. The free market isn't going to fund something like this, or LHC.
Ansonidak 2 years ago
@Ansonidak
YouTube comments are too limited, so I'll give you a gist. Free markets would guarantee only beneficial research is conducted. Should we care if water/simple life is on Titan? Probably not anytime soon. Is it cool to know? Absolutely! For scientists and enthusiasts.
It would maximize efficiency of research and resources. Most of all, it would remove the coercion of tax dollars spent on projects the gov't is not authorized to conduct (10th amendment).
neonsilkworm 2 years ago
neonsilkworm wrote - Free markets would guarantee only beneficial research is conducted.
I'm sure you are right. Beneficial defined by the corporation conducting the research. You never really know what research will be beneficial and in what way it will be beneficial until after it is conducted. Can you show me any research ever conducted by the free market that was not driven by the profit motive?
Ansonidak 2 years ago
Beneficial = profitable, absolutely. A company invests in research which will bring it future profits, through products and services which the market values. If the people do not desire it or the company cannot create the desire through marketing, such research would be a sunk cost.
If the benefit MAY only be realized after the costs are incurred, this is basically gambling, and very few investors are interested in such risk. This is why a solid rationale and profit motive is so important.
neonsilkworm 2 years ago
neonsilkworm I have no quarrel with anything you've said in this comment. But it does bring us back to my original comment to you - free market would have no interest in funding something like this telescope, and you have explained why this is true - no profit in it. And I think research of this nature should be done.
Ansonidak 2 years ago
until they find dimonds on mars or fuel on titan or something else they need badly like alien slave labor
nikbookworm 2 years ago
Nikbookworm: The funny - sad part is that there is surely great wealth to be had in space. Whole other planets worth of resources! Asteroids loaded with metals! Eternal space-based solar power! The problem is that all these things will require an enormous investment in development and engineering with many many years before the investment is payed back and profits can be made. Try going to an investor and saying "spend lots of money your whole life so that your grandchildren will be rich".
Ansonidak 2 years ago
it looks kind of like a star destroyer.
Zentz29 2 years ago 2
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TheSupercool19 2 years ago
I think this folding mirror could reduce costs for earth bound telescopes by mass production of smaller mirrors being fitted together to make a larger mirror.
Films4You 2 years ago
following the red shift back to the earlier stars and galaxies. Sounds exciting! :)
HaleyMary 2 years ago
Why does it have severely warped and wavey mirrors in the renderings? I can get smoother mirrors at the home improvement store. Those things will be polished smooth to the sub-micron level.
blurglide 2 years ago
3:00 Is that a fish? or am I just seeing things ???
Azrhei 2 years ago
Lol :D
C0DZ0R 2 years ago
Hey! Bjorn Lynne composed music for this? I should have known!
AlphaCrucis 2 years ago
I'm loving this channel. Glad I subscribed :)
EcrossH 2 years ago 2
@EcrossH agreed
gamerska 2 years ago
Go science go go go!!!!
manolotube666 2 years ago 2
star destroyer
creativeinsult 2 years ago 3
It's an exciting time to be an astronomer.
- Gene
gene2155 2 years ago 2
Omg it's huge! Can't wait :D
vava54own 2 years ago 2
5:30 - Queue Mission Impossible music and debriefing.
Deioth 2 years ago
This girl always makes me giggle a little :) Great video
luckystrke 2 years ago
great video!
sl9guitar 2 years ago
I want her!
wdgeo 2 years ago 3
I love Rebecca Barne's Accent -
Cute & Intelligent
Peace
tenshady 2 years ago 4
This has been flagged as spam show
None of this matters, the people who build things like this will burn in Hell forever.
I've got Jesus so that makes me WAY smarter than any scientist!
gonyea12 2 years ago
0/10
NuLLx42 2 years ago
I can't tell if your joking or serious.
Grymyrk 2 years ago
Looking at his subscription list I'd say he's joking.
ZepMan63 2 years ago
You're an idiot.
Quote: "I've got Jesus so that makes me WAY smarter than any scientist!"
No, That makes you more delusional than any scientist.
JmSantos78 2 years ago 54
try tell him that the flintstones arent based on a true story
mnewf2002 2 years ago