The question is, will A.I come alive and take over before the aliens get here or will they arrive at the same time and battle it out for control of earth?
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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Launch is less than a week away, Wednesday 22, around 4:30AM pacific.
Countdown to Webb's 1st Images Webb/NASA
Countdown to the release NASA's Webb Space Telescope 1st first full-color images and spectroscopic data. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade...
jwst.nasa.gov
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It will be sad to see @JamesW leave TFP but, once he gets to the Lagrange point in space the time delay and data speeds will be too slow to load up TFP on his mobile device. I hear they're going to provide him with a rotary dial phone so he can relay his observations ...
Don't forget that the Ariane 5 has a 4.5% failure rate 
I would not want to be the RSO on this launch.
I would not want to be the RSO on this launch.
To help pass the time while we wait, some fun news was had.
Step one : battleships.
Step two: Frickin SHARKS !!!
US Navy fires laser weapon in the Middle East
The US Navy announced on Wednesday that they fired a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Gulf of Aden amid the drone bomb threat by Houthi rebels in Yemen
www.dailymail.co.uk
Step one : battleships.
Step two: Frickin SHARKS !!!
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To help pass the time while we wait, some fun news was had.
US Navy fires laser weapon in the Middle East
The US Navy announced on Wednesday that they fired a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Gulf of Aden amid the drone bomb threat by Houthi rebels in Yemenwww.dailymail.co.uk
Step one : battleships.
Step two: Frickin SHARKS !!!
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Meh, they just used a solid state laser ... sissies! Real men use deutrium-fluoride gas lasers where you ignite ethylene gas with nitrogen trifluoride in a resonant cavity to create a mid-infrared (3.8um) wavelength laser .. capable of megawatts of continuous laser output .... I love the smell of hydrofluoric acid exhaust vapor in the morning!!
Here are some of the reasons for the delays:
1) We will be upgrading to a new fast energy technology for communications that travels at 5.95 x 10^23 light years per second.
2) We are installing a 987 Yottawatt Gamma Ray Laser on the telescope for defense against alien attacks.
3) We need to patch the log4j vulnerability before hackers hack in and try to commandeer the telescope.
4) Due to budgetary constraints, we will be converting all images into NFTs and selling them on several blockchain platforms. Starting bids are at 1 BTC (11.93 ETH)>
1) We will be upgrading to a new fast energy technology for communications that travels at 5.95 x 10^23 light years per second.
2) We are installing a 987 Yottawatt Gamma Ray Laser on the telescope for defense against alien attacks.
3) We need to patch the log4j vulnerability before hackers hack in and try to commandeer the telescope.
4) Due to budgetary constraints, we will be converting all images into NFTs and selling them on several blockchain platforms. Starting bids are at 1 BTC (11.93 ETH)>
I cannot think of a cooler thing to have on the TV while little kids and/or science fans of any age open presents. (At least for us east coasters who will probably be up to see it).
Imagine the elementary school-er opening up a Lego Spaceship as a real live one takes off ?
Imagine the elementary school-er opening up a Lego Spaceship as a real live one takes off ?
Note from Santa: Just remember, Santa can see if you have been naughty or nice in the metaverse.
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Goodbye @JamesW … it was nice knowing you 
NASA Tweeted:
Merry Christmas! We got you a new telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope launched today, beginning a one-million-mile journey to see 13.5 billion years into the past. Follow @NASAWebb and join the quest to #UnfoldTheUniverse: NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds https://t.co/ilwWPuIJun
NASA Tweeted:
Merry Christmas! We got you a new telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope launched today, beginning a one-million-mile journey to see 13.5 billion years into the past. Follow @NASAWebb and join the quest to #UnfoldTheUniverse: NASA's Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds https://t.co/ilwWPuIJun
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I heard @JamesW will be on board to periodically rotate the telescope in order to take pictures of all the pools owned by TFP Mods and ensure they are following TFP best practices. There have been many lax mods lately and behaviors will be corrected either voluntarily or by “selective coercion”
Just remember … James is watching you
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I didn’t know much about this monumental apparatus but apparently one of my Air Force friends has transported many of the pieces of this all over the world for testing & assembly & posted about it yesterday. Very interesting!
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The Webb Telescope is starting to send back its first data stream and here's what they are seeing with it's wide-angle visible spectrum camera mounted to the side of the telescope gantry....
That image alone totally makes it was worth the $25B spent developing and launching it!!
That image alone totally makes it was worth the $25B spent developing and launching it!!
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I just watched “Don’t Look Up” yesterday- now I’m not sure I want to have the knowledge of everything it might see 
Was anyone else kinda bummed that we could barely see the shuttle clear the tower and they had to switch to an animation of ‘what it probably looked like’ due to the low visibility ? 
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Was anyone else kinda bummed that we could barely see the shuttle clear the tower and they had to switch to an animation of ‘what it probably looked like’ due to the low visibility ?
Yeah. As others have said, Ariane rocket launches suck. They don’t do any good camera shots or live feeds. They seriously need to up their marketing hype game …
