If you’re exhausted by the apparent vapidness of our cultural, political, etc newsmakers, click that link.
Give your faith in the human brain a lift.
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Funny you should mention that [and I totally agree with you].
Having grown up during the 1960’s, I can’t help but be reminded of the great Yogi Berra quote: ‘It’s Deja Vu All Over Again’.
The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missle crises, the USS Pueblo incident, the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, the near revolution in France, the domestic riots, the political assasinations, the massive shift in cultural norms/arts/science/politics/civil rights, environmental awareness…etc, etc.
The biggest distractions from all that, for me, were baseball, music and NASA.
I’ve long since lost interest in baseball and sports in general; but with the incredible worldwide advances in space/astronomy/physics/science/biology - it’s got me riveted for more and wishing for another 60 or so years of longevity to see it all through.
If Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick were here now to witness this, I’m reasonably sure they’d be both amazed and horrified.
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They are getting close!
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Not the latest and greatest, but close! This may interest many here:
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That’s cool. Thanks
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/28/nasas-webb-in-full-focus-ready-for-instrument-commissioning/
JWST ready to begin instrument commissioning, we are quite close to first science images
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I was just checking that out. The tracking indicator is near the end of the line. 
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My whole mental image of the universe has changed this year. I U-tube JWST everyday!
FUN!
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For some reason it almost feels like the excitement before the first moon landing.
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Thanks for posting this amazing video!!
Best wishes
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That’s awesome 
. Thanks!
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No, you guys started me looking, but yes the JWST is going to be very cool to follow 
Something doesn’t add up, those are optical images not Infrared and the latest images from JWST on the NASA site does not show any of them. I think this video is a fake. He goes on to show images of Jupiter in his next video also claiming they are JWST images which is definitely not real.
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Virtually certain the video is a fake, no JWST images other than sensor commissioning images have been taken by JWST and certainly none would be in optical light which all the images described in the video are
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Wow…you are so right…Boy was I schnukered…should’ve
known better…
The yokes on me …ha ha ha
Thanks Aiki
Best wishes
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Dang clickbait anyway. We’ll have the real thing soon.
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@aiki14 checking webb.nasa.gov and no such images have posted to the Gov flickr page. Thanks for the fact check, I’ll check the source more closely next time 
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I thought they said that they wouldn’t have releasable images until June or so which is creeping up so maybe soon we’ll have the real thing from WEBB.
Hubble still amazes me with its images. There is no way for a human to comprehend the distances involved except being numbers spoken or on paper.
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Crap. I should have known better, as well.
Still following NASA’s progress with great interest…
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Here’s a bit of history on Hubble and WEBB
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