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Cis Space Telescope
« on: March 02, 2021, 08:41:28 AM »
Scientific American, which was at one time, a long time ago, a science publication, says we need to rename the yet to be deployed James Webb Space Telescope because it is homophobic.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2021, 08:58:35 AM »
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2021, 08:59:02 AM »
Our new gay country is just fabulous.
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2021, 09:26:13 AM »
The current administration will probably do it. 
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2021, 09:38:13 AM »
Call it a trans scope and it will have a 41% chance of blowing up on the pad.
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2021, 09:44:05 AM »
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Brian Nord
Brian Nord is a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago. He designs algorithms to decode the shape and evolution of the universe from cosmological experiments, and he works to re-imagine and re-build research spaces to be just and equitable.

Did anyone else read that name as "Brian Nerd"?
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2021, 09:47:28 AM »
Call it a trans scope and it will have a 41% chance of blowing up on the pad.

Crucial parts will have been removed and replaced by crude non-functional fakes that may or may not even look right, but we're all afraid to say anything but "all is well!".
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2021, 09:49:42 AM »
Call it a trans scope and it will have a 41% chance of blowing up on the pad.

For some reason it keeps pointing itself at Uranus
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2021, 10:18:39 AM »
Oh beHAVE!
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2021, 11:21:53 AM »
Call it a trans scope and it will have a 41% chance of blowing up on the pad.

Even if it doesn't blow up on launch will it actually be "fully functional"?
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2021, 12:06:17 PM »
"fully functional"?

Not in any sense that matters.
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Re: Cis Space Telescope
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2021, 02:41:35 PM »
Even if it doesn't blow up on launch will it actually be "fully functional"?

No it will just be infected and bleeding
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