First image from the Webb Telescope has been received! - Page 1
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author: cvanc
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 26, 2021, 11:27:58 pm
content: Here it is...

author: mawyatt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 12:11:01 am
content: That's funnyIronically something similar did happen way back in the Homing Overlay Experiment, HOE for short. This experiment was to see if a kinetic kill could take place in space to intercept an ICBM. In one of the early tests, when the intercept test missile was fired and shroud removed to allow the HgCdTe IR sensor/tracker to track the incoming test ICBM thru a window, somehow this sensor was mounted facing the wrong way, looking at the missile wall instead of out the windowThat would have been a interesting post flight analysis meeting to attendBest,

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 01:06:01 am
content: Oh dude that's just WRONG!I'm thinking the first deep deep space pic will be some message like this (imagine very weaK and fuzzy) ...YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO SEE FARTHER THAN THIS

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 01:14:01 am
content: Well, the first images from Hubble were a disaster and the project was almost ruined, good thing we found a way to fix it. =)

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 01:40:48 am
content: Quote from: xrunner on December 27, 2021, 01:06:01 amOr a more subtle: the distant scenery just looks pixellated, or fuzzy or unloaded, as is often the case in video games.But yeah, stoked to see this thing get onlineTim

author: David Hess
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 04:09:12 am
content: After landing on Venus, the Russian Venera 14 lander popped a camera lens cap off which landed in the way of the soil compressibility probe.

author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 04:51:59 am
content: reminds me of the idiot george bush jnr surveying a battle schene with binoculars,trouble was the asshole still had the lens caps on!!

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 07:04:06 am
content: Quote from: cvanc on December 26, 2021, 11:27:58 pmI thought it would be along the lines of this:

author: gabiz_ro
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 07:17:36 am
content: Better something likeHumansStay home!!!

author: cvanc
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2021, 06:24:58 pm
content: Quote from: barycentric on December 27, 2021, 12:18:17 amI actually agreeHere's another possibility

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 03, 2022, 10:07:56 pm
content: What's "TEMP BAN" about that post ?I, sometimes, indulge a little whimsy, if you are complaining that fictional element (obviously) isn't a 'true' narrative. I even posted a picture of a 'cat', recently...(actually, was a picture of a bug)

author: YurkshireLad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2022, 12:24:07 am
content: PHEW!I was expecting a blue screen of death!

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2022, 04:40:03 am
content: Quote from: RJHayward on January 03, 2022, 10:07:56 pmIt was sarcasm, as ones' reaction to a "bad" pun while also enjoying it.Tim