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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 w

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.
- wumpus 4y ago
  > A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered. Wow. No, it doesn't.
  - echelon 4y ago
    (Relative to a failure or catastrophe.)
- russellbeattie 4y ago
  It was just meant as an aside. Friendly generic advice to help save your sanity. More advice: You're probably just hungry or in a bad mood. Whenever I overreact on HN or taken something the wrong way (which sadly has happened more than once) that's usually the issue. Go have something sweet to increase your blood sugar, maybe take a walk. It'll help. :-)
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- jackmott 4y ago
  It isn’t uncalled for, what is uncalled for is how in the modern era you can’t talk about fucking anything without a conspiratorial interjection like yours, always without evidence, derailing fucking every conversation and every attempt to do something good. stop.
  - echelon 4y ago
    > seems like It's a simile.

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.

wumpus 4y ago
> A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered. Wow. No, it doesn't.
- echelon 4y ago
  (Relative to a failure or catastrophe.)
russellbeattie 4y ago
It was just meant as an aside. Friendly generic advice to help save your sanity. More advice: You're probably just hungry or in a bad mood. Whenever I overreact on HN or taken something the wrong way (which sadly has happened more than once) that's usually the issue. Go have something sweet to increase your blood sugar, maybe take a walk. It'll help. :-)
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jackmott 4y ago
It isn’t uncalled for, what is uncalled for is how in the modern era you can’t talk about fucking anything without a conspiratorial interjection like yours, always without evidence, derailing fucking every conversation and every attempt to do something good. stop.
- echelon 4y ago
  > seems like It's a simile.