Webb telescope, still scheduled for November launch?

If it's not too racist. I heard it was ready but people were trying to cancel the name.

And that's OUR fricking fault? I didn't try to get Webb cancelled 30 fricking years in the grave.

To your original question the Unicorn-Rainbow telescope is still on pace to launch on the frog rocket in November.

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And that's OUR fricking fault?.

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Ace,

Yes. I didn’t ask about the name. That’s your own little op-Ed. Own your stances.

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They have to figure out what to call it now because Webb is a racist, sexist, homophobe.

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Have they announced they are definitely changing it? Or is this just some SJW Twitter stuff?

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In respect to my question? Not at all.

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Is it relevant to this discussion? Or were you focused on your basic question that could have been answered by Google?

It's your thread and I fear we have gotten off on the wrong foot. I'm a space junkie but I'm also old and very, very, very, very, very tired of the SJW wars.

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possible new breakthroughs this could entail for us.

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When Hubbell was launched, it was like the blind being able to see. Particularly the visual wonders it brought compared to the relatively clumsy, old school atmospheric observatory (or even more crude, the early imagery taken from LEO with less than specialized equipment).

With all the advances in cameras since Hubbell and what we learned about space "mega" telescopes from operating Hubbell itself, I have cautious optimism about what *Webb* will be able to do.

On the other hand, it almost can't be but an incremental change, because we were going from almost nothing to Hubbell before. I feel Webb will be Hubbell 2.0 and that may not be the excitement we were all looking for.

There is a lot of potential in the non-visible spectrum, but that isn't as sexy and flashy as some of the eye-popping visual images of things we got from Hubbell, including a lot of things we thought we know how they looked.

So, I guess the OP didn't want a discussion? Just wanted someone to google his answer for him?

Well, nicely played, then.

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Y’all are making it hard to be a participant on this board. Jesus Christ I can’t even talk about space anymore.

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I dunno. I kind of feel like that sometimes, but then again, this board has always been a little off kilter. (I think the slogan back in the day was 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"

Besides, there is some level of entertainment value in watching the extent to which people will go to insert politics into all different types of threads.

yep