Soldato
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Here's hoping it will be fully operational next month!
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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The only downside is Virgin Media provide the broadband.
The whole world was watching and they did the count down in French.
Watching with some kids and it was a bummer for them, what a way to not inspire a generation.
Anyone with interaction with young kids knows that countdown is one of the best parts for them.
Watching with some kids and it was a bummer for them, what a way to not inspire a generation.
Anyone with interaction with young kids knows that countdown is one of the best parts for them.
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Teach them to count for themselves and not rely on others ?
Seems decent, wonder what the latency is on that connection
. And a lot faster than the speeds they have for the likes of Mars and Voyagers - though hardly surprising with the distance involved.It's going to be around a million miles away, I think?Seems decent, wonder what the latency is on that connection
So that's at least 6 seconds latency.
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Tell your kids it was a joint effort between multiple Space agencies from different nationalities and not to be racist. How can you say kids won't be inspired by this? All because they spoke and counted down in french. To me it was an opportunity to teach my lads how to count down in another language, because to get any were in the space program as a scientist like my lad wants to do you might need to speak another language.
This whole Webb things has taken off big time over the last few years, saying "what a way not to inspire a generation" is quite pathetic.
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lol 
Good grief
How about using it as a great excuse to start counting in a foreign language!
Plus - surely French speaking kids deserve to be able to get inspired too?
Oh - and lastly - being monolingual puts you in a pretty small minority. Most of the world speak more than one language equally fluently.
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Ok so this is all over my head.
How can we look billions of years into the past with this telescope..?
Because of the way light travels through space, we see it years later.Ok so this is all over my head.
How can we look billions of years into the past with this telescope..?
Ok so this is all over my head.
How can we look billions of years into the past with this telescope..?
Simple answer - Light takes a measurable amount time to travel. Over long enough distances this time becomes noticeable so light arriving at Earth was actually emitted millions of years before we actually see it therefore when we view really distant objects we are effectively looking into the past.
Some stars you can see in the sky might not actually be there any more.
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Ok so this is all over my head.
How can we look billions of years into the past with this telescope..?
Because the light from the first stars takes ~13.6billion years to get here, so we're seeing them as they were that long ago.
Incredible.
