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NASA OFFICIALS ARE WORRIED THAT PIRATES WILL STEAL THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
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| 03/12/2021
| Victor Tangermann
Posted on 03/13/2021 1:20:16 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
What, we can’t stick a couple platoons of Special Forces troops on the ship? Sheesh.
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posted on
03/13/2021 2:57:17 PM PST
by
piytar
(Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
To: BenLurkin
Don’t we have a Navy or Coast Guard ship that can guard it?
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posted on
03/13/2021 2:58:18 PM PST
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
To: Tennessee Nana
Is that a telescope in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:02:55 PM PST
by
howlinhound
(Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
Webb, the telescope that ate astronomy.
10 billion for one telescope? It better work.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:03:14 PM PST
by
jpsb
To: Yo-Yo
"The closer to the equator you launch from, the more assist you get from the Earth's rotation." Sure, but the distance from Cape Canaveral to French Guiana is only 1600 miles in latitude.
If it were that important, why not launch from, say, Hawaii's big island, only 1,000 miles north in latitude from French Guiana?
Not saying French Guiana isn't a good idea, but if there are unnecessary risks, why take them?
45
posted on
03/13/2021 3:05:55 PM PST
by
BroJoeK
((a little historical perspective...) )
To: libertylover
“Uh, don’t we still have a navy?”
They are all having a sulk over some slight and will not talk to each other?
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:06:25 PM PST
by
doorgunner69
("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
To: hanamizu
47
posted on
03/13/2021 3:09:03 PM PST
by
Churchillspirit
(9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:14:23 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“It will, now that they’ve told the whole world about it.”
What you said.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:15:35 PM PST
by
WVNan
To: Soul of the South
I hope all of these questions have been considered by NASA. If not we definitely have a major problem of competence which is another story in and of itself.
—
NASA has long been a hot bed of major competence
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:16:00 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: libertylover
Uh, don’t we still have a navy?
—
They are busy with social justice issues and transsexual operations. They will get right on in as soon as the current bull dyke wars end.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:17:41 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: TonyinLA
They couldn’t fence it. I’d start by looking in the backyards of serious amateur astronomers. Maybe a bunch of them formed an outlaw gang to steal it. Astronomers gone wild.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:18:15 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
To: Soul of the South
Yep, those were my first questions, too. Wouldn’t you provide a serious military escort for a $10 billion telescope?
It is pathetic the “journalist” didn’t look into this.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:19:48 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
To: BenLurkin
Any idea what that would fetch on ebay?
Asking for a friend.
54
posted on
03/13/2021 3:20:37 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: BroJoeK
See post #8 - larger payload from equatorial launch sites
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:22:01 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: BroJoeK
Sure, but the distance from Cape Canaveral to French Guiana is only 1600 miles in latitude. If it were that important, why not launch from, say, Hawaii's big island, only 1,000 miles north in latitude from French Guiana?
The European Space Agency launch facility Guiana Space Centre is at 5° 13' 53" N, whereas the southernmost point of the Hawaiian Island chain is at 18° 58' 3" N, plus just think of the shipping time from anywhere in the Gulf of Mexico to Hawaii.
Impractical.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:23:35 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
Too small, the cage around the JWT is far larger than the Guppy
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:28:09 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: TonyinLA
You don’t fence it you hold it for ransom.
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:36:12 PM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: BenLurkin
What the heck are the U.S. Navy and Coastguard for if not to protect American property and interests?
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:38:43 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: BenLurkin
Mrs Pirate to Mr Pirate, after he hangs the mirror on the wall in their house...
“Honey, I think this mirror makes my butt look big.”
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posted on
03/13/2021 3:39:30 PM PST
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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