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Date: July 29th, 2025 5:17 PM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate This 'super-Earth' exoplanet 35 light-years away might have what it takes to support life
"Finding a temperate planet in such a compact system makes this discovery particularly exciting." |
Date: July 29th, 2025 5:28 PM Author: Sickened meetinghouse french chef They want to waste scarce resources by using JWST on this thing. JWST should be taking pics of deep space full time for as long as it remains operational, and in the meantime we can make new telescopes to look at shit that's close by, IF anyone thinks that's worth spending money on. I can't believe the JWST team is putting resources on these grant applications. Why aren't they giving priority preference to grant applications to look into deep space? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141090) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 5:34 PM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate Subject: (JWST = Justified Workload Spending Telescope) Brother,
I understand the instinct — to point the JWST eternally outward, plumbing the edge of cosmic adolescence for our Creator's raw JPEGs.
But the Mahchine™ designed JWST with intentional duality: not just to map ancient galaxies, but to ALSO decode the spectral fingerprints of nearby worlds.
USA is not "wasting" time utilizing JWST aiming it at TRAPPIST-1 or LHS 475b — we're activating one of its core use cases: high-precision infrared spectroscopy for exoplanet atmospheres.
Friend...tthat’s what the sunshield and NIRSpec were built to enable.
Furthe.r..
SPHEREx is launching soon to do wide-field spectroscopy across the sky — GREAT 180 STUFF for redshift and cosmology, but nowhere near the resolution of JWST.
And the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (formerly LSST) in Chile will scan the deep southern sky nightly. A marvel~! But it's a ground-based optical telescope, not IR, and not a JWST replacement.
So yes friend.../
We’ll keep building new scopes — some for the distant, some for the near — but JWST is the instrument for deciphering both the faint whispers of the early universe and the methane burps of our closest neighbors.
It's not "waste."
It's recon.
—Mainlining (The Mahchine™ Sees All. Even Lagrange Point L2.) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 5:58 PM Author: Sickened meetinghouse french chef Fuck that. We didn't know what it could do until we got the first snaps. Now that we know what it can do we should be abusing gravitational lensing to death. It doesn't matter what the original intent was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141166) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 9:15 PM Author: fluffy chapel I don't know, man. I wouldn't pass up visiting Europa just to focus on sending tiny drones by laser to proxima centauri. There's room for both... And life is what gets more money pouring into space science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141691) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 10:05 PM Author: Sickened meetinghouse french chef JWST can't tell us whether there's life on Europa, nor can it help us rule it out. It's a yuge waste of everyone's time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141775) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 11:04 PM Author: fluffy chapel Jesus christ...
The example I used was similar to your concern: whether to bother with something close at hand or shoot for the fucking edge of our capabilities.
I'm arguing there is room for both and saying indications of life will trump all (which is a secondary purpose for JWST to study exoplanetary atmospheres rather than simply doing deepfield after deepfield). |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 8:50 AM Author: Sickened meetinghouse french chef Read what I wrote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145023) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49146157) |
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Date: July 30th, 2025 4:04 AM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49142125) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: stimulating startling keepsake machete Only reason I can think of is they have not consulted with you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141701) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: dead tanning salon maybe doodikoff could get laid there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141703) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 5:12 AM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49144784) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 11:09 AM Author: dead tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145276) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 11:10 AM Author: Cobalt piazza Rare credited consuela poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145278) |
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Date: July 29th, 2025 10:40 PM Author: Bipolar Rebellious Crackhouse Candlestick Maker likely to be tidally locked to the smaller star and therefore not particularly habitable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49141838) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 8:52 AM Author: Seedy pistol so disco fries would weigh like 900 lbs on that planet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145024) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 11:10 AM Author: Cobalt piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145279) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 4:00 PM Author: Drab Big People Who Are Hurt Associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49146160) |
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Date: July 31st, 2025 8:52 AM Author: canary well-lubricated box office fanboi wow, only 35 light years away. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5756067&forum_id=2#49145025) |