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All you would be able to see is the sunny side of the sun shield, none of the cool (both literally and figuratively) bits, which are all in darkness.

samstave 5y ago
I have a few questions about extending a tethered "selfie bot" If you have a tethered camera which uses the tether as its power source which is out in front of the scope, wouldn't it be able to "stare" back at the Business Side of the mullet and stream the Party back to earth? Or does a teathered bot risk messing with the orbit of the scope? How much actual pull strength is requireed per kilo to re-orient something in space, meaning: How easily could say an astronaught pull on a cable and change the orientation of an object of much larger mass? What if there were a gyro-ratchet: Gyros that spin, and are tethered to a thing. There are multiple of them and they "yank" a small amount by spinning their gyro/flywheel a bit to initiate a pull... but there are many of these extending off tethers to orient something... What if the tethers are like a flat ribbon cable of super thin solar collecting "flat noodles" - they provide power to the orienting gyros... but how do you untangle things in space if stuff goeas awry... --- Maybe the craft only deploys gyros, via tethers, when it needs alignment - re-pointing... and reels the gyro back in when done... or reels them back out when the tether should use solar to trickle re-charge the gyro battery.
- JshWright 5y ago
  But what would the point be? All the interesting bits are in effectively total darkness.
  - samstave 5y ago
    >>But what would the point be? But why should imagine anything?
    - JshWright 5y ago
      But that's literally all we would be doing... imagining... You could accomplish exactly the same thing by leaving the lens cap on a camera here on earth. It would see just as much of the interesting parts of Webb as a camera 20m beyond Webb's orbit looking back at it.
      - samstave 5y ago
        Totally not related to the thread, but I think you would like looking into certain aspects of etymology... Specifically the terms HollyWood (where that comes from is Pagan Druids, as that is where they took their Wands from which CAST SPELLS... Tele-vision, broadCASTING, Programming -- etc, its all there... Spelling - to create/cast - cast as into formation.... Imagining --- is an interesting word...
- philderbeast 5y ago
  even if its looking at the business side of the telescpe the sun sheild means there is no light there for it to be able to see anything. its a case of your can't see it because there is no light, not because you dont have an angle of it (although that is also a chalange to overcome.
  - samstave 5y ago
    Nothing to see here folks, move on.

samstave 5y ago

I have a few questions about extending a tethered "selfie bot" If you have a tethered camera which uses the tether as its power source which is out in front of the scope, wouldn't it be able to "stare" back at the Business Side of the mullet and stream the Party back to earth? Or does a teathered bot risk messing with the orbit of the scope? How much actual pull strength is requireed per kilo to re-orient something in space, meaning: How easily could say an astronaught pull on a cable and change the orientation of an object of much larger mass? What if there were a gyro-ratchet: Gyros that spin, and are tethered to a thing. There are multiple of them and they "yank" a small amount by spinning their gyro/flywheel a bit to initiate a pull... but there are many of these extending off tethers to orient something... What if the tethers are like a flat ribbon cable of super thin solar collecting "flat noodles" - they provide power to the orienting gyros... but how do you untangle things in space if stuff goeas awry... --- Maybe the craft only deploys gyros, via tethers, when it needs alignment - re-pointing... and reels the gyro back in when done... or reels them back out when the tether should use solar to trickle re-charge the gyro battery.

JshWright 5y ago
But what would the point be? All the interesting bits are in effectively total darkness.
- samstave 5y ago
  >>But what would the point be? But why should imagine anything?
  - JshWright 5y ago
    But that's literally all we would be doing... imagining... You could accomplish exactly the same thing by leaving the lens cap on a camera here on earth. It would see just as much of the interesting parts of Webb as a camera 20m beyond Webb's orbit looking back at it.
    - samstave 5y ago
      Totally not related to the thread, but I think you would like looking into certain aspects of etymology... Specifically the terms HollyWood (where that comes from is Pagan Druids, as that is where they took their Wands from which CAST SPELLS... Tele-vision, broadCASTING, Programming -- etc, its all there... Spelling - to create/cast - cast as into formation.... Imagining --- is an interesting word...
philderbeast 5y ago
even if its looking at the business side of the telescpe the sun sheild means there is no light there for it to be able to see anything. its a case of your can't see it because there is no light, not because you dont have an angle of it (although that is also a chalange to overcome.
- samstave 5y ago
  Nothing to see here folks, move on.