Thursday, 16 September 2021

The James Webb Telescope.

I am so excited about this it's giving me the jitters. What if it blows up on the launchpad? Or fails to open once deployed? Or goes off course and ends up falling into the sun?

It is incredibly odd to be so invested emotionally in a project I can only observe from behind a keyboard thousands of miles from the project itself. And if that's the case for me. How stressful must it be for all the people who have invested hundreds of thousands of man-hours and years of their lives bringing this machine into existence?


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