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Whoa!! Human Ingenuity at work!

On By rushbabe49In business, Culture, Economics, government, Media and the Internet, Nature, Random Musings About Life, Science and research, social media, Space and astronomy, technology1 Comment

I continually marvel at the products of the human mind, when presented with a seemingly intractable problem. Don’t count out the resourcefulness of NASA engineers! https://twitter.com/mastronomers/status/1943762001026855055?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Further details: https://twitter.com/mastronomers/status/1943763631079829943?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ Extraordinary! The USA provides and encourages the most innovation of any country in the world, mostly due to its capitalist economic system. I am in awe …

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Our Moon

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Do you take the Moon for granted?  Or are you fascinated by our huge satellite, that is a significant proportion of the size of Earth, making it unique in our Solar System?  Do you look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope, and wonder what all those craters look like closer-up?  Were you alive …

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The multi-billion-dollar Webb Space Telescope, showing us our Universe

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Much has been made, in the press, about the huge cost overruns on the Webb Space Telescope project. It's time now to ignore all the cost overruns, and see the result of decades of scientific work by NASA and its private-sector partners.  Today, the first images taken by the Webb telescope in its orbit around …

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