JWST

What will you do when one of the mirrors unfolds just 1mm too short and the entire telescope is fucked?

It won't make it that far.

Robonaut reporting for duty

I'll wipe my tears away from under my 32k vr headset, and then i'll have my waifu comfort me.

Lobby TrumpyDumpy to call for a service mission to L2 using a Dragon/FH or the Orion/SLS

>SLS finally gets a meaning

Make some expensive contact lenses, obviously.

due to the low launch rate of the SLS, it gets fixed in 2030. By this time Musk has already launched the BFT which has an aperture size of OH FUCK(>100 km) and has made a business selling alien pornography.

>BFT

I want it to explode just so I could say "JWST FUCK MY SHIT UP"

It'll work

It's just that it wont be everything promised, and that will hurt even more

Just what this thing is supposed to accomplish? Get images from the big bang itself?

>JWST
More like JUUST amirite

scanning the atmospheres of exoplanets is a big one

Damn thats good

It's not even going to make it off the launch pad.

Stop scaring me

Explain why people think it will blow up? Is the mirror using high volatile explosive coatings?

Blowing up is just one of the many 50/50 things that could go wrong. Either this thing will work or it won't. Total destruction is the worst outcome. Also, rockets have been known to explode randomly.

I'll be so fucking scared on launch day. I get sweaty palms even thinking of the sweaty palms I will have then.

Because even though rocketry is pretty well understood, combining expensive equipment with a tube full of pressurized explosives that have to be kept just so or else they go boom still leads to nervousness (and of course sometimes people make mistakes or some part fails and the rocket goes kaboom)

What will we do when some software engineer didn't get the memo on what units the rest of the telescope is measuring in, and makes all information inaccurate and all data garbage

I can't be the only one who would laugh if this hyper-expensive boondoggle got fucked on ascent by launch failure, I don't even give a fuck

>YFW during Elon's presentation he said they could launch a telescope with a mirror almost 9m in diameter, whereas JWST is only ~6.5m diameter, and it wouldn't even need to be folded up or anything

>YFW during Elon's presentation he said they could launch a telescope with a mirror almost 9m in diameter
But that's not true. Falcon 9 has a small fairing which wouldn't even fit JWST. Building telescopes to fly on powerpoint rockets is a terrible idea, if it cannot fly on another existing launcher it wont be built. JWST is late enough without having to depend on SpaceX timelines.

>unfolds just 1mm too short

They are spending literally billions to ensure this kind of Hubble-style fuckery doesn't happen.

nah It'll be all good, because it's launching with a real launch provider and not a meme company

>it's launching with a real launch provider and not a meme company

>ariane 5

Pretty legit.

Hes talking BFR

>pay 400mil for a nonreusable rocket that has failed on launch before
>pay 60mil for a reusable rocket that has failed on launch before

Yeah gee they really didn't fall for the meme huh.

see

I'm aware, I addressed that:
>Building telescopes to fly on powerpoint rockets is a terrible idea, if it cannot fly on another existing launcher it wont be built.

I'm glad you are not in charge of anything important.

>Be guy who has to fold it up for the last time
>Draw dick on mirror

And no one would ever know, it wouldn't show up in the images, optics doesn't work like that.

Great counterargument.