The SCARIEST Thing About the James Webb Telescope  

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I'd say the scariest thing about James Webb is that it looks like a a giant honeycomb, perfect for alien space bees.

The scariest thing is actually getting this close to launch without delays

It launched successfully and is heading where it needs to be can't wait until its fully operational

I hope the launch goes smoothly! It will be a nail biter for sure 😬

I remember the mirror issues with the Hubble. If this goes without a hitch ; being out of reach: what monument to all those involved. The data will be truly amazing.

If only the people writing these messages all those months back knew the amazing things JWST is showing now!!

Yes! Please be glitch free… humanity needs this.

I’m actually really nervous for this launch. It’s like he said. This has to go absolutely perfect.

7months later: Ok chill out everyone, it's doing just fine now

I wish people could realize the magnitude of this mission. And how long people have been waiting for it.

I can't wait for the first images from this. I can't imagine how nervous all those involved must be.

Saw this in person being built about 5 years ago at Northrop Grumman , it was amazing to see in person and imagining what it’s life will be like in extreme conditions. Good luck!

This is the mission I have been so excited about for so many years, I hope, cross fingers, pray for the launch to be succesful

Praying that the launch goes without any issues. I’m really into Space and Nasa and all that stuff so im really excited

Keep in mind that the Hubble telescope was expected to last 5 to 10 years and now it’s been 45 years and it’s still going. Same with some of the rovers on Mars, still chugging along past their expiration date.

Scariest thing is people believe earth is flat

Thank God, I lived to see this come true.

Whoever makes the first repair on James Webb will be a hero. That will be a legendary voyage. Let's be honest. Nothing is perfect. There will be a need for a human hand to fix something. I wouldn't be surprised if it already needs a hand.

The things we will see thanks to the telescope will be amazing. Im really looking forward to it. What an engineering marvel.

Thanks to all the Engineers, Scientists and everyone who have contributed to this great achievement. I am so excited for what all we could see in our Universe with the help of this telescope. I really wish all goes well during the launch

Update,it's working and the images look amazingly crisp .

What if the first image of the edge of the universe is the edge of a petri dish and a scientist staring at us under a microscope?

"Please work!" lol That's what we're all thinking. Fingers crossed for our amazing engineer sisters and brothers regardless!

Aw man I hope all goes well with this. I'm so excited

Imagine if we put all this energy into researching our oceans...

Great Informative One Chuck. I Hope James Webb launch will be Successful! So Excited!

Hi, everyone. Kindly peer-review / comment / correct my understanding: The age of the universe may NOT actually be 13 something billion years old or so. We assume that it is, due to the time that it takes light from the farthest galaxies.... We also assume that the speed of light has always been constant. iirc, from the big bang, space expanded & still continues to expand... -in fact, faster than the speed of light. Anything within expanding space will also be traveling at the same expansion rate (so faster than the speed of light, but at or less than the speed of light, relative to other stars & galaxies...) The point: images to be gathered by the HST /JWST will only reveal what happened well AFTER what we are already seeing... and not anytime/anything BEFORE/in the past. In other words, we cannot /will not see anything earlier than/beyond the past of what we are already seeing. So, any object, even if it is N billion light-years away, is already well ahead of its creation /formation, and we will never see that-how it was forming /being created, because it's “first light“ has passed so long ago.

I've been looking forward to this for over 10 years. I cannot believe we're 10 days - DAYS - away. I hope things go well

I'm so excited for the James Webb launch, I hope all goes well so we can gather some never before seen data!

Seeing this today after it has gave us many images makes me so happy.

I believe it's being sent so far away to see things even more clearly. So give us even more than what Hubble showed us about the universe.

So far it's working as good or even better than expected. I can't wait to see the first images this coming Tuesday!

Amazing how close we are, I've been waiting over 20 years for this big brute 😊🙏🇬🇧👍

I will die happy if that beauty actually works the way it’s intended too

Here from the future to say, thanks to the tireless efforts from countless engineers, scientists, and other laborers, JWST has reached its destination with almost zero complications! A testament to the capacity humans have when we all pull in the same direction

This is the first time ive heard of this, and im excited that we may be able to see new things that were obscured from our previous vision of the galaxy

Ive been waiting for this for years..I prey all goes as planned..The images will be amazing..

Everything is tested maybe hundreds or thousands of times, so much science and engineering that went to it, yet it's still giving you a vibe that it needs a lot of PRAYERS and HOPE to work.

The scariest thing is that we’re “HOPING for the best”.

I am so excited to see the first images from this amazing piece of life changing engineering, words can hardly describe my level of anticipation. Ever since seeing and contemplating the Hubble Deep Field images as a kid I have been absolutely fascinated.

Maybe they can take a picture of earth, and show flaterthers that we live on a spherical planet. But they probably still call it fake.

Great: the efficiency of the American mind in project management.

It Seems like it should be put in Orbit until they know that there arent any issues with that then send it on its way. The hubble telescope had a lot of bugs before it was working properly.

What it's going to see is still my main concern and interest at the same time Hope it doesn't get damaged

The scariest thing is it’s ability to technically see back to the Big Bang thanks to space time theory… also it’s immense range means we’re closer to discovering alien life and possible civilizations than ever before

I remember they had to fix Hubble soon after it was launched. They most certainly need to get this telescope right, or it will go down as the biggest scientific failure of all time, with a lot of heads rolling

One of the best things is that it can be expanded even further in size in the future

This is one of the most exiting moments of my life!

Looking forward to the new info. Sure Hubble had a rough time but we have landed an SUV on Mars using a rocket crane and flown a helicopter on Mars since then. I think it will be good.

It has so far been successfully deployed on December 25, Christmas in 2021. The solar array is now functional and it is starting its million mile journey. It will orbit around the sun rather than the earth.

So excited for the questions that this amazing telescope is going to teach us to ask.

The real scary thing is that now we have a way of actually finding life in the universe. We could legit find an entire colony on a planet within hours of the launch

It couldn't have turned out any better. It might even last 20 years. And everything worked. A million things could have went wrong but nothing did.

Imagine forgetting to put in the SD card

Crossing my fingers that everything is gonna go smoothly for this telescope to work

I am also excited about what it’s going to see! Not nervous about launch in 4 days. They’ve been pretty successful with intricate and sensitive launches so far.

And we’re only 2 days away from seeing the first photos it’s taken 😩 The suspense is killing me

RIP to all the guys who helped make it but didn’t live long enough to see it go up

It just arrived at correct location and worked properly, it took pictures too

Damn, finally! I remember writing an essay about this telescope 5 years ago, excited to see what it comes up with.

You probably know this already, but on Januari 8th 2022 James Webb was succesfully deployed. It was the biggest challenge.

What I hope for is government to care as much about homeless people as it does telescopes

Hope!?... 20 years of planning and we are going off the hope system!?... Why don't you get Dorothy on the project so she can clack her heels together three times and really get this ball rolling! There's still time... You can hope all that you want but if the math isn't correct...*sighs*

Now imagine in a hundred years, scientist are now doing an expedition to find the last known trace of the James Webb Telescope and find it on a far away planet crashed and turning off at the same time they found it

“Astronauts won’t be able to reach it like the Hubble” ya whatever . We’re thinking of going to Mars I think we can reach this.

I sure hope it works perfectly. It will be way cool to see what it shows us!

They should have made a way to refuel it. They could have shot a robot at it that carries fuel and have it automatically fuel it or even have it operated by somebody?

Holy shit I can't stop rewatching. The "It's not about where its going to see, it's about where it's going to see." It's satisfying for my ears

I can't wait to see the new ultra high definition footage of our solar system and galaxy

The telescope is successfully launched on 25th December 2021. The best Christmas gift ever !

The scariest thing is the fact that we haven't already launched it like 10 years ago. Edit: more like 20, time flies

Scope damaged

Having million pounds as a British: white Mr incredible Having million pounds as a American: black Mr incredible

Astronomy won't be same after 10 years❤️

Scariest thing is getting this thing on orbit man if anything goes wrong its huge work thrown out

The scariest thing to me is that it will discover life on other planets and the government will not allow that information to released publicly.

I just love to hear you talk. If the rest of my life was you talking about space I would gladly live out my days

The most frightening thing will be the lack of information. Much like the Hubble where we see very little of the 25 years worth of imagery.

My great uncle actually helped to design one of the lenses that was used on the Hubble.

It has a 20 yr supply due to how smoothly everything went.. crazy

I would imagine (but don’t know) the engineers designed it for remote robotic servicing. Modularization. Access. Failure is low probability event-by definition-but consequence is high, so substantial service planning must be in place. Just guessing.

A little update since I just came across this video after the launch. NASA scientists were able to take some shortcuts if you will during their launch to L2 and they have now announced that we have more fuel than we thought we would have and the mission will last more than 10 years as long as it's just a fuel consumption issue. The unfurling has begun and the spacecraft is communicating well. We have received our first bit of temperature data as of yesterday, today is now December 30th.

When starships are contracted to nasa it’ll be cheaper to send astronauts on the two week journey to fix the telescope rather than to make a new one. 3-4 week round trip. It’d be good research for future trips to Mars too

8.8 billion so far? And here I can't even afford to fill my gas tank.

The fuel supply shouldn't be much of a worry. Almost all orbiting satellites somewhat become unaligned over the years but it's nothing to worry about. Fortunately we've experimented with L2 before. Like you said before though the scariest thing is if something goes wrong on it we are too far from it to fix it easily

Everything about space is scary, but that's why we need telescopes like this to learn more

The law of entropy is not gonna make this plan easy there are a million factors at play for example meteorites, technology malfunctions, radiation damage, common wear of moving parts, leaks signal loss, innumerable miscalculations. I feel that if this succeeds and does last the full 10 years it’ll be the greatest achievement in human history not only by technological advancements but in sheer terms of probability. This will be the most expensive gamble ever undertaken but it’s money we’ll spent I’d rather see money spent on a doomed expedition than a winning war

Don't worry about the launch. It's an extremely reliable system. Worry about the hundreds of commands the unit has to complete. It's six months, minimum, until we'll know if all is well. If everything goes right, we'll soon see the greatest show of all time.

I was probably 10-11 when I first read about James Space Webb telescope and now I'm 19. Glad to see it finally launching into space

This telescope has proven just how valuable its discoveries are so if something does go down they need to go up. Find a way.

The scariest thing for me is the results of this telescope launch as we seen the pictures of the infinity galaxies WE CANNOT BE ALONE 💀

8.8Billion to send a telescope into space but we STILL can't feed the hungry

HOPEFULLY where it will be. Lest we forget about Hubble's troubled infancy. Hubble had many growing pains, but we were able to go up and fix it. JWT isn't going to get any housecalls. 🤞🤞

With the Hubble living its last years I hope everything go fine with Webb telescope

I'm sure there are lots of reasons why, but would have been cool if they created a modular power supply that could have been changed out after 10 years.

Fun fact. The launch was so efficient that now they think itll last a couple extra years up in the l2.

Thankfully it all went well and it should be working for 20 years now instead of 10

Revised launch date 24th December! Webb is targeted to launch at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:30pm GMT) Friday, Dec. 24, on an ESA-provided Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America. So exciting!

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