![The James Webb Space Telescope is a massive piece of shit. [1043x606 - 53KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/sNuUfz.jpg){kind=link}
Space is fake. Earth is flat.
Space is fake. Earth is flat.
That link to the JWST status page isn't even worth looking at, they don't bother updating it more than twice a year and the change the work schedule before every update so that can announce everything is on time.
The James Webb Space Telescope project was first announced in 1995, at the time the proposed budget was $500 million and the launch was expected in 2007. They've now spent $15.4 billion dollars trying to build the thing and it needs to be ready to ship by June to make the next delayed launch schedule in October and they really don't have a shot at having it ready to ship before June 2022 or so, but they run out of money later on this year again. When they ran out of money last February, NASA found $400 million out of petty cash to keep the project going.
All of this to study dark matter which doesn't even exist.
The Hubble Space telescope has been orbiting for 30 years and the net benefit to anyone other than the people who get paid to operate the program has been zilch.
That link to the JWST status page isn't even worth looking at, they don't bother updating it more than twice a year and the change the work schedule before every update so that can announce everything is on time.
The James Webb Space Telescope project was first announced in 1995, at the time the proposed budget was $500 million and the launch was expected in 2007. They've now spent $15.4 billion dollars trying to build the thing and it needs to be ready to ship by June to make the next delayed launch schedule in October and they really don't have a shot at having it ready to ship before June 2022 or so, but they run out of money later on this year again. When they ran out of money last February, NASA found $400 million out of petty cash to keep the project going.
All of this to study dark matter which doesn't even exist.
The Hubble Space telescope has been orbiting for 30 years and the net benefit to anyone other than the people who get paid to operate the program has been zilch.
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