tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6618880.post6546164165650571862..comments2024-03-27T00:26:31.343-07:00Comments on The Commercial Space Blog: James Webb Space Telescope Preparing for 2018 LaunchChuck Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09506476753520146858noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6618880.post-63739934685558682952014-07-02T06:31:51.112-07:002014-07-02T06:31:51.112-07:00JWST is perhaps an invaluable addition to the glob...JWST is perhaps an invaluable addition to the global astronomy toolbox, but "the world’s most powerful and advanced telescope"? Hm. The E-ELT seems more easily supported for such a claim.<br /><br />Also, my personal loyalty to the support of science is at odds with my personal ethics to honesty. The science results possible from a defect-free, perfectly performing JWST are completely out of line with the costs, encouraging fraud and waste. Granting that any funds diverted from war & killing even to science-based waste/fraud is at least a step in the right direction, the project is still troubling.<br /><br />Hubble's main value seems primarily to have been in giving us inspiring pictures and profits for private contractors, but fundamental science of import? Not so much. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com