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  1. This will truly be (should all go well) one of the most remarkable feats of engineering and of the exploratory imagination in human history, well worth the large expenditure, and likely to provide massive amounts of data and information, first to the scientific community and then to the general public. The very successful Hubble managed to produce absolutely stunning (colorized) images of the universe (the sublime “Pillars of Creation” being the most famous), and one can hope for even more from the Webb.

  2. NASA recently hired two dozen clergy to think about social and cultural implications of finding alien life.
    Coincidence? I think not
    But it’s supposed to be sci fi writers, not clergy. Problem is finding a venue seedy enough to house a bunch of sci-fi authors.

  3. Aggh! Intersectionality! “in the arena where science, philosophy, and religion meet.”
    How many of us need “help” in understanding the origin of the universe? It did not start with the Big Bang. The Bang had a Starter, Yahweh or God, which the Webb cannot help us find or understand.

  4. I don’t think Sci-Fi writer Larry Niven would settle for much seediness…. The man inherited vast Californian old money wealth and writes for the fun of it. There should be more like him.

    I remember Jerry Pournelle mentioning that when the Reagan Administration hired a bunch of Sci-Fi authors to brainstorm more out there Star Wars project ideas, they did some of their sessions Chez Niven because he was the only guy had a big enough place to hold them all.

    Now the current crop of officially approved sufficiently woke Hugo contenders and winners wouldn’t be of much theological or psychological use in the case of discovery of Alien Life. They’d most likely invite the Little Green Men around for drugs, inter-species cosplay butt sex, and a body modification symposium. And in a Seedy Dive for sure! And don’t forget the Lava Lamps. Establishment Sci-Fi is circling the bowl.

  5. They should put a telescope on the Moon. Sure, it would be in the Sun for half a month, but would still be best and closest spot for astronomy for the other half of the month.

  6. @Yancey Ward:

    The great thing about a Lagrange Point is that you can just (sorta, kinda) float there. You ain’t going nowhere. Unlike the Moon which is always in a rush to go somewhere. This probably helps with taking long exposures of faint stuff very far away.

    Also, thermal management and expansion/contraction would be a Female Dog if the thing were on the Moon alternating between light and dark.

    Also, put it on the Moon and pretty soon you’re going to have a Chinaman holding up fortune cookie papers in front of it for your reading pleasure… And then what could you do about it? 😀

  7. I know a married couple who met at a sci-fi authors convention. A bit odd, but they seem happy. Been married at least 25 years.

  8. This is mostly fake to cover for military industrial black ops budgets. M9ney laundering

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