History repeats itself right ? Before Hubble’s telescope, scientists were saying : “it will show the hedge of the universe, where there is no Galaxies yet formed”. Remind me in 6 months.

  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
    31·
    3 years ago

    Space is unimaginably vast. It is overwhelmingly unlikely we’ll even fully understand a tiny fraction of it even if we explore until the end of the universe.

    • a_Ha@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      To quote Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Space,” it says, "is big. Really big. … 😆
      ( i like those books so very much )

    • a_Ha@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      “pour money”
      ok, if i read this correctly, together with your previous post : You are saying this is a waste of money, even worse : We are destroying ourselves with this.

      What i am saying is : before science there was mythology or any such things.
      Before wasting money people were wasting goods for such things.
      Such things answers a humane need.

      “no guns required”
      i like peaceful people (Amish), still I believe we need progress.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.de
    1·
    3 years ago

    I don’t know what to expect but I find that the older I get the more excited I am about basic research like this.

    • a_Ha@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Strongly agree with some, and strongly disagree with other, of the things you say here. And i don’t know what is “id-git” … maybe it is better if i don’t know ?

      • a_Ha@lemmy.mlOP
        01·
        3 years ago

        Lemmy software test :
        my test doesn’t work … i would need two accounts for this test to work … so I downvoted my own comment here.

        spoiler

        1) Because i am replying to my own comment here, i will receive a notification inside my inbox
        2) After receiving this inbox message i will edit this comment … i want to know if editing is creating a new message inside my inbox … i mean, if comments that were marked as read will now appear as unread
        3 if someone else is reading my comments here, please notice i made it to the bottom of a post wich is somewhere i expect very few people will stumble upon : i do it so because i don’t want to annoy users
        4 this knowledge is useful regarding editing of comments made to other users
        5 I shall repeat this process but this time by putting a call to my UserName
        … here it is : @a_Ha@lemmy.ml

  • krolden@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    Maybe before you attack an achievement like Webb you should ask why there’s a bunch of Hubble level telescopes in orbit pointed towards earth.

    Having said that, it will be really cool to see the infrared light that other space telescopes are unable to pick up.