Definitely planning. Minute, precise, meticulous, checked and double-checked. — Wayfarer
Luck?! What's that? — Your local EP
We're atheists with respect to Tyche/Fortuna. — Agent Smith
X: I'm not Jewish!
Y: Yeah well, nobody's perfect — Agent Smith
Webb Completes First Multi-Instrument Alignment
The sixth stage of aligning NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mirrors to its scientific instruments so they will create the most accurate and focused images possible has concluded. While the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) continues its cooldown, optics teams have successfully aligned the rest of the observatory’s onboard instruments to Webb’s mirrors. Previous alignment efforts were so accurate that the team concluded no additional adjustments to the secondary mirror are necessary until the seventh and final stage, which will involve MIRI when it has fully cooled.
So are eyeballs, ears & memories! :smirk:Telescopes are time machines! — Agent Smith
Too much money and too many generational careers have been dedicated to this mission for it be a "random shot in the dark". Like gravity waves, Higgs bosons, black hole imagery, thousands of exo-planets (Hubble, Kepler, etc), acceleration of cosmic expansion, etc – just in the last quarter century alone, my man, like "The Killer" himself sang, "there's a whole lotta shakin' going on" in so-called "Big Science". — 180 Proof
The vacuum cannot not reveal "Himself". — 180 Proof
"The Old Shadow" (Freddy N.) – Erdős was merely projecting. :wink: — 180 Proof
Easy there, conquistador. :sweat:3. Atmospheric studies of potentially habitable exoplanets (colonization) — Agent Smith
344 single points of failure. :yikes: — Wayfarer
No one's ever made the first jump. — Tank
Everybody falls the first time, right Trin? — Cypher
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