How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble 185
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."
How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble (Score:3, Funny)
Put a bad toupee on a telescope.
La Grange point (Score:2, Funny)
They've got a lot of nice telescopes out there. Haw haw haw haw.
Re:Budget Cuts and the JWT (Score:3, 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.
"trumps Hubble" (Score:4, Funny)
OK, I have no productive contribution here, but the phrases "Hubble trumping" and "trouble humping" are now echoing through my head.