This has been going through my head for days now:

Original:

What it's based on:

 

Funny post of FB

And the best comment: "Taint that the truth" 

 

 

 

Can confirm, I did spend fairly large part of the 1990s doing just that.

 

Q: What happens when a degenerate weeb has too much disposable income?

A:

2 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:

Q: What happens when a degenerate weeb has too much disposable income?

A:

Heh @ Dark Plates 2.0. Why would you not just get OG Dark Plates?

Panic buying Russian tubes

I missed this a couple of days ago courtesy of Covid - but the JWST has reached full optical alignment. The alignment object is a star well within our own galaxy, and you can see the 6-fold diffraction from the hexagonal mirrors. It is only visible because of the extreme brightness of the star.

But everything else you can see are galaxies - right down to the faintest streaks you can pick out. This image is a tour de force of stunning optics and an astonishingly complex machine.

 

Astonishingly though this is the first step - alignment of the primary to one instrument. There are umpteen other steps involving the whole suite of instruments, followed by "fine alignment". But that image is a first taste of what this machine will do.

 

 

On 3/19/2022 at 5:57 AM, Craig Sawyers said:

Astonishingly though this is the first step - alignment of the primary to one instrument. There are umpteen other steps involving the whole suite of instruments, followed by "fine alignment". But that image is a first taste of what this machine will do.

 

yeah - can't wait until we can see what it can see.

That first image is impressive, but still seems like lots of tuning left from the second.

 

 

Don't think about it too hard.