NASA has released some beautiful images obtained with the fancy new space telescope. Here’s an example:
Since all of the images are captured in infrared and then presented in false color within the visible-to-humans spectrum (#FakeNews), it should be possible to find a corner of the universe that, with proper adjustments to the (inherently arbitrary) false color algorithm, would include symbology from the Rainbow Flag religion. This would help NASA atone for its past sins against the true faith (see “James Webb image reignites calls to rename telescope amid links to LGBT abuses” (Guardian)) and prove to the skeptics that God is a member of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.
Maybe we could find part of the universe that resembles the pregnant man emoji as well? That would help us push back against the current tide of hate in which “women” are falsely identified as the only victims of the latest Supreme Junta’s ruling regarding abortion care.
Note that I was against the “James Webb” name from the first time that I heard it. Not because of his/her/zir/their alleged animosity toward the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, but because Mx. Webb was a bureaucrat rather than a scientist or engineer. (Contrast to the Hubble Space Telescope, named after an observational cosmologist.)
Readers: What would be a better name for the telescope? How about naming it after Jim Peebles? There are other NASA experiments named after living scientists. Or pick one of the technicians who built it and name the machine after a person who does honest work?
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center page regarding the JWST (my first paid job as a computer nerd was at Goddard as a Fortran programmer on the Pioneer Venus orbiter)
What would be a better name for the telescope? Black Lives Matter telescope.
TS: Would you accept Black Bodies Matter Space Telescope? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
Separately, I am happy to see that you’re developing more passion for Black Lives Matter! We can have a discussion group later this month at Oshkosh.
Dementia Joe loves being responsible for the first colored…. (fill in the blank). In this case it’s first colored pictures from a telescope.
Someday there’s going to be a GRNSPN telescope. The GRNSPN will be better than the JWST because it’s accurate enough to level a pool table from billions of light years away.
I’m ashamed that NASA is spending billions$ on telescopes, when they could be giving the money to Ukraine instead. Some poor Ukrainian politician is still waiting for funds to buy his 3rd home on the Côte d’Azur while we fiddle with pictures of space.
Good point! NASA should learn what is the most current “current thing” and support it wholeheartedly – or be cancelled for being on the wrong side of history! Especially considering that Ukraine is Gay, i.e. belong to 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, and you don’t need a telescope to see it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWUnaXgWAAEUy4C.png
It would take just a small portion of that NASA money for a good cause of erecting a new statue of a gay porn star in Odessa – what a waste! Shame on NASA
‘A petition demanding the demolition of a statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great to be replaced with a statue honoring gay U.S. porn star Billy Herrington has acquired enough signatures to ensure that it must be considered by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The petition gives several reasons as to why a gay U.S. porn star should take her place, mainly that it will serve as a “renunciation of the infamous Russian heritage and a loud statement that Odessa is not some provincial town of the Russian Empire. That Odessa is not a part of Russian culture but has its own culture and sense of humor.” He further added that the statue will be “a clear signal that Ukraine supports the LGBT community.”‘
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/zelensky-petition-statue-catherine-great-gay-porn-star-odessa
And we wonder why this nation is divided. The more time someone spends digging out old sh*t, be it the sh*t is real or not, the more #Pride this nation will be and everyone will be living in harmony.
When are we going to erase from history George Washington for owning slaves and not believing in BLM? What about Martin Luther King, Jr for being a serial adulterer and yet a Baptist minister?
None of this BS existed 30 or even 20 years ago. Twenty years ago, this country have had far more harmony and #Inclusion. Go figure.
That’s because the cult of diversiry and tolerance ran into basic human nature – which is that one tends to like more and to trust more people who are more like oneself.
Instead of accepting this (rather benign) reality the cultists doubled down to higher degrees of mistrust and intolerance to people who are not exactly like them. And thus created more hatred and division that there was before they started.
Egalitarianism is the revolt against Nauture.
I’ve been inside and outside (and jogged right past, on many, many occasions) the Space Telescope Science Institute at JHU (San Martin Drive on the Homewood campus) on several occasions and one thing I’ve always noticed – you might be able to see from some of the publicity photos – is how dreary the interior architecture and decoration is. At the time, I thought it would be this vast building with a lot of open lighted spaces and very high ceilings with skylights illuminating the interior with light from the Heavens, but instead there’s a lot of kind of dank darkness and so forth. Sort of like a fallout shelter. Ugly tiles on the walls, generic drop ceilings. I felt kind of bad for the scientists and staff working there, truth to tell.
You have to scroll down here to:
“The lonely work of picking Webb’s first five images”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/science/webb-telescope-images-nasa?#nythe-lonely-work-of-picking-webbs-first-five-images
I saw Mike Bloomberg (ΦΚΨ) there receiving an Entrepreneurship trophy/award while he did a proper “sit down and shut up” to one of the toiling lefty professors who was needling him at the time about his “Army of Lawyers” who could see to it that he “did what he wanted” when he was asked about their grave doubts about his plans to expand Bloomberg Media across the globe. That was a fun day indeed. Who knew he was going to run for President one day?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/science/webb-telescope-images-nasa?
Anyway, I don’t know how 2SLGBTQQIA+ Compliant the STScI is these days, but the University Magazine has been ready for whatever they can dish out for a long time now…
https://i.ibb.co/108yB5c/JHMAGAZINE-SUMMER19.jpg
How can intelligent engineer types believe in anything NASA has ever done? Let’s build an aircraft to go really really far, say to the moon. Fuel, fuel and more fuel is a priority, also life support stuff, and a folding golf cart. Think about it, it’s absurd. Earthling’s airplanes still lack folding golf carts the idea of sending one to the moon on a rocket is beyond retarded.
@GB, the idea of sending human or robots to the moon or other planets is actually good. The process of archiving that goal adds a lot of value to human knowledge and advancement. Now, if you are asking me about NASA’s or any government agency bureaucracy, that’s a different issue.
Billions for the fake moon landing and all we got out of it is Tang. Sorry but Tang is not an advancement of human civilization.
I have no problem with people going to the Moon as long as they do it on their own dime. Or using funds raised from voluntary donors.
Phil: Found this video of a custom RV Hauler that has R44 for the license plate, a mural of a flying R44 and a trailer to haul an R44.
https://youtu.be/w0ly9URKats
The original owner ran All West Freight in Alaska. He built the rig to travel with his wife, make stops and pull out the helicopter and fly around. Sadly he crashed not soon after building this dream rig.
http://www.oldwings.nl/content/ak77/ak77.htm
The current owner, Ken Kaplan, is driving the rig from the Yukon to The New England Motorcycle Museum. 4000 miles! Ken’s plan is to start a motorcycle race team and travel the circuit. He’s putting a plan to a dream which is fun.
The 2SLGBTQQIA+ “community” has already monopolized the rainbow, the “trans” and “pan” prefixes, goodness, kindness, love, etc. Why not add a nebula to the list?
I suggest “Al Gore Telescope” to honor the man who invented the Internet!
It might feel sometimes that Soros’s troops marching under the rainbow flags are winning, but it is not so – despite of what western mass media tells you, the culture war is not lost yet! Rainbow can still become a benign symbol of … childhood – here is a good illustration of that – named “Putin steals Rainbow from Faggots and returns it to children”! Like a mythical hero he can and WILL do it
https://polit.reactor.cc/post/3421320
a bunch of lunatics , leave science out of your agenda