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There's a Christmas every year. A major telescope launch is apparently once a generation.
So why couldn’t they delay the lunch by a week so everyone could spend Christmas with their families and then launch it?
What's up with this fixation people have with arbitrary dates for celebration?
> remember that all across the world are millions of other people working the truly important jobs Im going to assume this wasn't intenional but it came off as a little negative given the rest of the positivity in this sweet message. It just got me thinking about underpaid educators and childcare workers who for the most part are off today. Really everyone, we're all in this together right? Keeping this whole crazy m…
> Im going to assume this wasn't intenional but it came off as a little negative given the rest of the positivity in this sweet message. I’m not following your logic here. How is this a negative thing? OP is literally praising people for their dedication with good faith intentions.
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So why couldn’t they delay the lunch by a week so everyone could spend Christmas with their families and then launch it?
What's stopping anyone from staying with their family one or two weeks after Christmas? What's up with this fixation people have with arbitrary dates for celebration?
There are lots of people for who Xmas isn’t a thing — different background etc. I always thought it would make sense to let us handle Xmas duty so others — people for whom it really, really matters - can do their Xmas stuff. I used to try to volunteer for this when it was relevant (really, it’s not a thing for me), but I rarely saw a systematic opportunity to do so. I think it gets harder as time goes because the rep…
Thankfully, this year, unlike last, I was able to visit my family not only for Thanksgiving, but also Xmas — I only have to work the 26th.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
> remember that all across the world are millions of other people working the truly important jobs Im going to assume this wasn't intenional but it came off as a little negative given the rest of the positivity in this sweet message. It just got me thinking about underpaid educators and childcare workers who for the most part are off today. Really everyone, we're all in this together right? Keeping this whole crazy m…
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Doubtful considering how long it took to put JWST together. What, 30 years almost? Granted a lot of that was scope creep but nonetheless, I'm betting it's not launch capacity that's the bottleneck.
The available launch vehicles probably demanded a certain amount of ambition in the plans. You can't launch small experimental telescopes with a short planned operation on the shuttle. It's too expensive just to show up with anything less than Hubble's successor. Now the new space race is aiming at making access to space cheap and common. Whatever follows probably won't be a big telescope. It'll be all the little exp…
My grandmother is hospitalized at home after a huge stroke. Her nurse just left our house for the second time of this Christmas Day for taking care of her while we were in family. Thanks to his work, I was able to spend Christmas with my family, including my grandmother. That’s some badass important job.
Side note: I don't know how many people on HN are nurses/doctors, but thank you all for everything over the past couple years, especially now. We as a society have failed you guys, I just wish we could all do better. Edit: Just realized this could read as me criticizing GP, this is not what I intended, this comment just made me realize this sentiment more fully.