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I suppose it wouldn’t be too much trouble to transpose some letters to turn “JWST” to the “SJWT” Do people forget what NASA was for in the 1950s? we were in a
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
I suppose it wouldn’t be too much trouble to transpose some letters to turn “JWST” to the “SJWT”
Do people forget what NASA was for in the 1950s? we were in a cold war with a nuclear power, and NASA was working on ICBMs
It doesn’t really matter what James Webb’s personal opinion of homosexuality was - anything that you have to keep secret is a vulnerability to blackmail.
When Jack Tramiel of Commodore was asked how he manages to do business in Germany, the country that held him in Auschwitz during the war, he replies, “I live in the future”, I wish more people would take that tack.
- jfengel 5y ago* “I live in the future”, I wish more people would take that tack.* So... you're saying we shouldn't be naming a satellite after a guy who's been dead for 20 years? Because that's where the history part comes in. We could have given it a forward-looking name like we used for the Mars probes. Instead, we named it after a dead guy... which means talking about the dead guy.