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Two weeks of service, made possible by 26 years of development. Not unlike the 10-years-to-overnight-success pattern.

by sebmellen 4y ago

ericmcer 4y ago
According to this article it was Joe Bidens doing lol.
- Turneyboy 4y ago
  No it wasn't. According to the article Biden unveiled the first image. That's it and that's true. No credit is being falsely attributed to him here.
joering2 4y ago
Classical "one person, overnight entrepreneurship success" that took 10 years of making and a team of skilled employees.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  Kinda like how common people think Elon Musk "invented" Tesla, while he's not even one of the founding engineers. Yet he's invulnerable in the company despite impregnating senior leadership with impunity. Perception is reality
  - xwolfi 4y ago
    And you can be sure he s not impregnating them only with impunity ;)
  - jackmott 4y ago
  - neonsunset 4y ago
z9znz 4y ago
This is another good example of how consistency, determination, and effort can really make big things happen. (It's also an example of why we should force ourselves to put some of our energy into long term efforts, the results of which we may never personally experience.)
echelon 4y ago
> Two weeks of service, made possible by 26 years of development. With already unanticipated levels of micrometeorite collision and mirror damage [1], I'm worried we may not see a full service life out of JWST. All of the "look what the JWST has accomplished in two weeks" press seems like drumming up accolades in advance of an early retirement. I hope I'm wrong. [1] https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-damage https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeor...
- russellbeattie 4y ago
  First, you're being conspiratorial. I know that seems to be the fad nowadays, but honestly, that way lies madness. I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I just did a search online and nothing obvious came up about it. I don't know if the debris is (are?) spread out enough to affect the area around the moon, and I'm sure NASA has planned for it, but the news of that meteor which lit up over the Midwest made me wonder how the telescope is faring. https://youtu.be/WDwUmVVpJ4s https://youtu.be/WDwUmVVpJ4s
  - mulmen 4y ago
    > I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I just did a search online and nothing obvious came up about it. Reasonable question but JWST is a lot smaller than Earth.
  - echelon 4y ago
    > First, you're being conspiratorial What a dramatic accusation to shut down conversation. That's frankly uncalled for. I'm expressing fears about a very expensive and time consuming investment. A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered. I never said NASA is telling the media to say these things. It may be a general sense of "talk highly about our expensive things so we can keep doing expensive things". How any department, public or private, keeps getting itself funded. We're seeing a lot of these pieces. It feels as though scientists are telling journalists this byline, because it's everywhere. Nothing wrong with that. > I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I don't think we know yet. We're about to find out.
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Two weeks of service, made possible by 26 years of development. Not unlike the 10-years-to-overnight-success pattern.

ericmcer 4y ago

According to this article it was Joe Bidens doing lol.

Turneyboy 4y ago
No it wasn't. According to the article Biden unveiled the first image. That's it and that's true. No credit is being falsely attributed to him here.

joering2 4y ago

Classical "one person, overnight entrepreneurship success" that took 10 years of making and a team of skilled employees.

hackernewds 4y ago
Kinda like how common people think Elon Musk "invented" Tesla, while he's not even one of the founding engineers. Yet he's invulnerable in the company despite impregnating senior leadership with impunity. Perception is reality
- xwolfi 4y ago
  And you can be sure he s not impregnating them only with impunity ;)
- jackmott 4y ago
- neonsunset 4y ago

z9znz 4y ago

This is another good example of how consistency, determination, and effort can really make big things happen. (It's also an example of why we should force ourselves to put some of our energy into long term efforts, the results of which we may never personally experience.)

echelon 4y ago

> Two weeks of service, made possible by 26 years of development. With already unanticipated levels of micrometeorite collision and mirror damage [1], I'm worried we may not see a full service life out of JWST. All of the "look what the JWST has accomplished in two weeks" press seems like drumming up accolades in advance of an early retirement. I hope I'm wrong. [1] https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-damage https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeor...

russellbeattie 4y ago
First, you're being conspiratorial. I know that seems to be the fad nowadays, but honestly, that way lies madness. I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I just did a search online and nothing obvious came up about it. I don't know if the debris is (are?) spread out enough to affect the area around the moon, and I'm sure NASA has planned for it, but the news of that meteor which lit up over the Midwest made me wonder how the telescope is faring. https://youtu.be/WDwUmVVpJ4s https://youtu.be/WDwUmVVpJ4s
- mulmen 4y ago
  > I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I just did a search online and nothing obvious came up about it. Reasonable question but JWST is a lot smaller than Earth.
- echelon 4y ago
  > First, you're being conspiratorial What a dramatic accusation to shut down conversation. That's frankly uncalled for. I'm expressing fears about a very expensive and time consuming investment. A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered. I never said NASA is telling the media to say these things. It may be a general sense of "talk highly about our expensive things so we can keep doing expensive things". How any department, public or private, keeps getting itself funded. We're seeing a lot of these pieces. It feels as though scientists are telling journalists this byline, because it's everywhere. Nothing wrong with that. > I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud. I don't think we know yet. We're about to find out.

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