JWST had a Turbulent History, but was worth it.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Get Nebula for 40% off with my link: go.nebula.tv/scienceasylum Then watch me in a D&D game: nebula.tv/videos/neurotransmissions-a-therapeutic-dungeons-dragons-oneshot?ref=scienceasylum

[@acombo]

nah

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@acombo That's fine. I'm not pressuring you.

[@acombo]

💀@@ScienceAsylum

[@govcorpwatch]

5:16 Dr. Angela Collier @acollierastro has some great data points regarding Webb and the naming of the 'scope. very funny. Webb has nothing to do with space, he was just simply an administrator from Dept. of State brought in to manage NASA for a time period. He had no real discoveries or anything significant that he himself contributed other than just Administrating. 🤣 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2nEcmZspbp8mMU

[@meinkamph5327]

Ur not a good listener. You are not able too see. But it's all just for funnies......

[@iammrbeat]

Update- I now have grass! I've been watching the grass grow for a few days now!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Good to hear!

[@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC]

The first design was for an 8,000-mile-diameter space telescope, but building a World Wide Webb telescope proved to be problematic.

[@ScienceAsylum]

😂

[@chuckoneill2023]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlexandarHullRichter]

Ironically, there actually is such a world-wide networked telescope set up to get that 8,000 mile diameter. It's called the Event Horizon telescope, and that's how we've gotten the images we have of the M86 super massive black hole, as well as Sagittarius A*

[@Piotrek7654321]

For now.

[@andueskitzoidneversolo2823]

Learning history is supposed to bother us. That's how we learn to be better

[@Wisteriu]

That's one of the best youtube comments I've ever read...

[@ScienceAsylum]

Fair point.

[@saratov99]

Year, turns out they were right in the 50's, now communists are in power everywhere.

[@highlander723]

@@Wisteriu Not really I've seen way better

[@jasonremy1627]

History that doesn't upset people is just public relations.

[@DaBlondDude]

It's a misunderstood thing; trying to do something that's never been done means treading in unknown places = inevitable that errors be made while learning. The American CERN got canceled too by yet more who don't understand the pioneering process

[@highlander723]

Yeah people that try to cancel other people because they don't agree with narratives or responsible for more damage in scientific progress than anything else

[@snex000]

You want to spend trillions on science, great. Spend YOUR trillions. Public moneys are not yours to play with.

[@ChinnuWoW]

@@snex000 Science develops technology to improve your life. It's very important for humanity. It should absolutely be funded by tax money. You should instead be complaining about the trillions spent per year on the military just to meddle with other countries to start wars.

[@snex000]

@@ChinnuWoW Science that produces results will be invested in on its own, because investors like profits. The government only gets in the way, as you clearly saw in this video. It's nothing but grifters taking their cut while the actual project budget explodes and goes overdue. Stop engaging in whataboutism. This is NOT what tax dollars are for. There shouldn't even BE tax dollars.

[@zblurth855]

@@snex000 OMG you know that fundamental science is one of the best investment a government can make as it is estimated that every dollar spend in it increases the gpd by 7$ you know creation of jobs, a LOT of new technologies (if you know what a book is you can find one dedicated to all the new tech that descended from the Apollo program) Also I hope you do not enjoy the internet or GPS or anything that needed infrastructure and development by public money lol

[@surgeeo1406]

Watching the launch live was my personal moon landing experience, I was obsessed with it for weeks!

[@MrEkzotic]

Cool. I didn't watch it launch, but I did see it in person when it was being built.

[@highlander723]

How high did your heart rate get. I watched the launch myself. 145 with worry and stress

[@anthonyb5279]

@@highlander723 I was stressed till we got well calibrated images from it.

[@zblurth855]

it was such a awesome launch, my family did see me disappear at the Christmas party lol, to bad I was the only one neerding out on it

[@surgeeo1406]

@@zblurth855 I was alone too 😭 I tried explaining my mom how much of a big deal it was, but she was all like "As long as you're happy sweetie."

[@iammrbeat]

You finally made a history video! lol

[@ScienceAsylum]

😆 Researching this was BRUTAL! I have a newfound appreciation for history YTers.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

Well hello, Mr. Beat! ❤

[@asicdathens]

Northrop Grumman was charging $1m for each day it remained inside the clean chamber at Redondo Beach. The fact that some NG employees messed the spacecraft component and added months in delays at the end it benefited the company

[@misteratoz]

That's fucked up

[@Golden_SnowFlake]

I really enjoyed this video format. Well done, Not because I specifically enjoyed this video, but because I think others will too, obviously. The dirt lawn segment was especially spot on.

[@GIRGHGH]

I hope eventually we can see them make the big boy. Twice the size, 3 times the wavelength coverage, and launched less than a decade after inception.

[@highlander723]

plans are on the table.... its going to be called the Carl Sagan observatory

[@Hossak]

The large hadron cost about 5 billion, plus a billion a year running costs plus upgrades plus plus plus. The next one is already more than 20 billion...... estimated.

[@collin4555]

Alright, that's a pretty solid investigation of the historical record, and I'm glad to be made aware of it. In general I would say I'm apprehensive naming things after people though. I'd rather we just didn't. But I'll own the fact that this is mostly a vague emotional position that I can't rationalize, and I wouldn't expect that to mean anything.

[@IamGhede]

Hexagons are the bestagons! I just recently rewatched that video. Yesterday in fact and it was so good that I watched it twice.

[@bejibx]

On behalf of all overly-straightforward people, thank you Mr. Beat for the heads clarification

[@hurmzz]

I always thought not naming the telescope to a scientist was the weird thing.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Oh yeah, it's definitely weird. It's just not _offensive._

[@hurmzz]

@@ScienceAsylum yeah I learned more about Webb (the person) only recently. You explained it very well. Turns out Webb actually tried working against bigotry. But we also must not forget the environment is a major influencer on behavior and people tend to be scared of things they don’t understand. Doesn’t mean they are evil though.

[@michaeldeal1625]

I wished you could have said more about why it was decided that the Webb Telescope would focus exclusively on the IR range, while Hubble was more on the visible and UV. And what can be investigated in each regime.

[@johnsmith34]

I doubt there's more than what has already been said in this video and others. Longer wavelengths can see earlier parts of the universe which we couldn't see before. We don't really know what we're going to see with it, and that's the value of this telescope that you wouldn't get from something that is merely better than Hubble.

[@ScienceAsylum]

PBS Space Time did a good video on it already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaiQg6Zsfpd7a9U I had nothing to add.

[@Pixels7]

13:37 love the reference

[@XEinstein]

13:38 Hexagons ARE the bestagons, indeed!

[@j_mase]

Great explanation of a complicated topic! I also appreciate the Futurama reference. Nothing like being entertained and educated at the same time. Thank you for what you do!

[@javiej]

... and that's why the politicians managing the JWT program were sent to UK, to manage the HS2.program.

[@edwardcs1285]

This is amazing. Thank you for the deep dive into the history.

[@user-xr7rv4vb8n]

Great video as always. The JWST is truly a wondrous accomplishment and shows what the human race is capable of when we put our minds and investment to it.

[@SurajKumar-ln8ij]

The one factor which applies to every telescope is "Size Matters".

[@lexinwonderland5741]

As a queer person in STEM, **thank you so much for this video**!! It genuinely acknowledges the horrors that happened to us under the US government, but clarifies point by point with facts instead of picking an easy scapegoat. This was brilliantly done, great content!!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks for letting me know. I was a little worried I wasn't doing the topic justice.

[@TheVoidSinger]

Didn't see that you had popped up on Nebula, nice, instant follow.

[@mhonella]

Another great video. Mr. Beat was a good addition.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Agree. I was happy to have him make an appearance.

[@brothermine2292]

I disagree. The Mr Beat skit spent a minute to say what could have been said in 10 seconds, in order to tell lame jokes.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@brothermine2292 Ah, you prefer pure educational content. Mr Beat and I make EDUtainment content. You seem to be in a _slightly_ wrong corner of KZbin.

[@brothermine2292]

@@ScienceAsylum : Why would you conclude that because I found Mr Beat's humor lame, that I don't appreciate your humor more? The fact that I've viewed many of your videos is strong evidence that you're mistaken.

[@imaginaryphi1618]

...unfolded et cetera. Pun intended. Good to see you in good shape Nick. 🤗

[@neoness1268]

Awesome video about the James Webb telescope 👌✨✨✨✨✨

[@apburner1]

I don't really care what Webb thought or did, it was 1950 ffs, a completely different time and set of norms.

[@flantos23]

"the buck stops here" sign continues to be the most ironic object ever to occupy the oval office

[@jasonremy1627]

Nice collab!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks! We're friends, so making cameos in each other's videos isn't uncommon.

[@paxdriver]

I've never heard of the lavender scare. This is a really important video.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Everyone should know about it.

[@Optimal_Living01]

Keep posting we're watching, large view count don't matter if their not "loyal" views. You'll always have "crazie" fan in me.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I made something a little different than usual and a lot of people don't like that. I bet the video will find its audience eventually. #NoRegrets

[@Optimal_Living01]

@@ScienceAsylum at least your not taking sponsorships that might compromise your fan loyalty 😂 take the sponsorship but still have a critical thinking and probing point of view. I think the formula for you have works great, simple explanations, no "wooing" the crowd with jargon, or focusing on visuals without a comprehensive explanation. Among your peers, you were the one that started my interest in science, I downloaded your book (free pdf, forgive me🥺) and I like your approach with the clones, and "people in the comments typing", and having your loving wife be apart of your growth. 💪 Great men aren't supposed to please everybody, only those that matter lol To put it simply, when I watch one of your peers videos, I gotta rewatch it a couple time to understand (go figure) but I only have to watch your videos once to understand.

[@alexpotts6520]

Marvel: Avengers Affinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history The Science Asylum and Mr Beat: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@elodvezer1790]

This was really good! I really liked the history and background content tied into the science! Definitely make more of these! 🎉❤

[@akiyamasenju7053]

Hey Nick. Any plans to include the feature comment in Nebula videos? I know on Nebula there is no ads but it feels like a cool part of the community is lost. Came here to see what it was.

[@bbbenj]

Thanks for this view back over this wonderful telescope!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bbbenj]

@@ScienceAsylum always!

[@cherubin7th]

True, but that space CGI are worth it.

[@alfadog67]

I just love the historical perspective you show us! Thanks Professor Nick!

[@SudaNIm103]

Even if he had said it; As a gay man, I’m personally okay with the naming of the JWST. While I value the controversy and the conversations it fosters, I acknowledge the naming honors Webb's work at NASA and in no material way serves to platform or perpetuate any wrongheaded, discriminatory beliefs he held. I think this serves as a good teachable moment, perhaps now more than ever before we must learn how to distinguish between the faults and virtues of historic and public figures. This isn’t a tacit prescription, for how to handle every problematic figure, but I think it's exemplary of the attitude we should strive to take when addressing these matters. While we should not turn a blind eye to such ill revelations, we should neither jump to strike from history or remembrance, those tainted but otherwise deserving. We can leverage, celebrate, and remember their works and greatness while we acknowledge, contextualize, and mourn their harm and failures. Our virtue and capacity to achieve greatness is matched if not exceeded by our ignorance, short-sightedness, and propensity for fear. This is true of us all, the best and the worst; it's innate to our humanity.

[@kinuorthel8096]

It's frustrating having learned in school that after a million (with factors of a thousand) there's a milliard (not in english of course), after which comes a billion and thousand times this billion there's a billiard and so forth. science shouldn't have this many unclear terms depending on language

[@AUBREYTHOMAS1979]

JWST is a mirror-cle.... Nick missed an opportunity 😂😂😂

[@ScienceAsylum]

😆 Good one.

[@beriiO]

LMFAO the "i thought nasa was apart of the exec branch" part 🤭

[@frk0788]

Hexagons are without any doubt the bestagons.

[@KurusuPanda]

0:03 I propose to pronounce it "Juiced"

[@Bassotronics]

The aliens should help pay back all we invested trying to locate them. Heck, they’ll probably do the same when they see us.

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Yeah I can imagine it must have been, with those spiderrs and all

[@colt5189]

I remember when a scientist got fired a few years ago for having pictures of women on his tshirt when he landed a probe onto a moving asteroid.

[@narfwhals7843]

Maybe you should look into that again. As far as I can tell Matt Taylor is still working at Esa.

[@highlander723]

Wow this video went off the rails quickly.... I take it as how much work it takes to clear someone of a cancel offense vs the ease of cancelling them in the first place.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I tried to make it 10 minute video, but the topic wouldn't allow it. Honestly, I wanted to talk more about the Lavender Scare, but pure history isn't really what I do here.

[@highlander723]

@@ScienceAsylum To be honest its not your field. That is more about history you are more about teaching science topics. I expected the video to be about The technical challenges in building the thing, not a 7 min history lesson about the namesake. If that was the case you should have made the title of your video "How naming the James Webb telescope was a nightmare" The video just seems a little disengenerous.

[@athirkell]

I thought it was really interesting. Once you mention that aspect of the nightmare, and of course you have to, you can't just yada yada yada it. The explanation of the infra red spectra was super too. Good job Science Asylum.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@athirkell My original plan was a technical episode about how the telescope works with some sides notes about the budgets/delays. The video itself had other plans. Once I learned about all this, how could I _not_ talk about it? This is obviously the leading story here. Who knows. Maybe this will free me up to do the technical episode now (but I don't know if I can top the Real Engineering episode).

[@JustMe-vz3wd]

@@ScienceAsylum i was expecting (and hoping) just that, a technical explanation or an update what it achieved until now. Instead its a story that the budget became inflated (who cares, happens all the time with big projects) and about almost not naming it after James Webb, the man was perhaps anti gay ("homophobic"lmao) so from scientific achiever he becomes a paria. just crazy. The WEBB its such an achievement, no matter "overbudgetting" or somebody was "homophobic"....

[@Jack_Redview]

Another video from my favorite channel

[@kwezicanca3698]

Thank you Mr Nick Lucid, much love from South Africa

[@Blameberg]

How large mirror we would need to see.. lets say directly observed atmospheres of some alpha centauri exoplanet

[@h7opolo]

i like your acting as the commenting clone.

[@physicslover1950]

Brilliant video...I have a question ... You can also take it as a challenge... Why do all neutron stars, magnetars, pulsars and black holes shoot jets of particles onky from their poles and not from equator.... We know that if something gets really close to black hole it is impossible to get out of its enormous gravitational pull... So how can black holes shoot particles with so high velocities from its poles despite its super strong gravitational well. Does frame dragging plays a role or what is actually happening at the point... Are those particles coming from inside the blackholes? What is happening over here... Is the black hole not spinning and only the accretion disc spins... That is causing a lot of confusion... I would appreciate it if you reply to my comment... In addition to replying to this comment, I humbly request you to make a video on this topic... As it is very counter intuitive..

[@ScienceAsylum]

*"Why do all neutron stars, magnetars, pulsars and black holes shoot jets of particles onky from their poles and not from equator?"* Actually, the poles the jets come out of are the _magnetic_ poles, not the geographic poles. For neutrons stars, those magnetic poles are no necessarily aligned with their geographic poles. That's how you get pulsars. The magnetic poles are moving around in a circle as the neutron star rotates. As for black holes, their poles _always_ align. The magnetic field of a black hole is really the magnetic field of the accretion disk, which is required (by spacetime geometry) to be around the black hole's equator. Either way though, it's a magnetic field that is causing the jets, so the jets always come out of the _magnetic_ poles. *"Are those particles coming from inside the black holes?"* No, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. Plenty of stuff escapes from outside it though. That's where the particles in the jets come from. They're moving at speeds close to that of light, so they can escape from the region just outside the event horizon. *"Is the black hole not spinning...?"* The black hole is a region of space and that space is rotating. I have an old video on this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3eTXnaBjbqeqrc *"...and only the accretion disc spins?"* Fun Fact: The accretion disk can spin either with or against the black hole's spin. Which one is happening determines how close the matter in the disk can get to the black hole before it falls in.

[@physicslover1950]

@@ScienceAsylum Thank you so much for this valuable response, Nick.. You are amazing... If it was some other KZbinr he has not even bothered to reply.. The respect for you in my heart has imcreased enormously... God bless you always.. Can you please answer one last question why do particles shoot out from magnetic poles only... I can't make an intuitive animation in my mind need your help regarding this.

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@physicslover1950 That would take an entire video to explain properly, but here's the short version: Charged particles are affected by magnetic fields and these insanely strong fields have shapes that channel those particles to the poles.

[@physicslover1950]

@@ScienceAsylum But I am trying to apply Fleming's right had rule and left hand rule but still can't get it... It would be highly helpful if you make a video on that.. Please Nick

[@Telephonebill51]

@@physicslover1950It's now the Left Hand rule, for actual electron flow. The Right hand Rule was for older hole flow. fingers curl in the direction of rotation of the magnetic lines of force, and the thumb points in the direction of electron flow.

[@ValenceFlux]

I always had an interest in optics more so since my exams in spatial relations.

[@steveyaho4918]

Yay new video!

[@psicommander]

Where’s question clone?

[@ScienceAsylum]

He took a break. He'll be back.

[@andrea7693]

Hexagon are definitely the bestagons 😂

[@neoness1268]

8:58 😂😂😂

[@joshuad6553]

All that, just for Space Cletus to get drunk and shoot a hole in it.

[@garyfilmer382]

A brilliant video, thank you, Nick, an historical narrative on some of most important political and social justice issues that have concerned us in modern times, along with a potted history of the JWST. NASA should just stick to naming telescopes and space probes after astronomers/physicists, and astronomical nomenclature though, that way arguments can be avoided (hopefully!). I’m subversively over budget too (Lol!🤣), having recently spent $I,800 on a new (secondhand) Takahashi telescope 🔭 Stunning optics!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Nice 👌. I bet it's beautiful.

[@Ti0Luch0]

Terrible stuff history has to reveal, indeed. Good thing you're an astrophysicist. Thank you for your work!

[@neilgreening9609]

Question - discussed before but you are a great explainer : How can universe even theoretically be infinite when it started small and is getting bigger. Its only had 14 billion years - really just a number - how can it possibly be anywhere near infinite yet?

[@fewwiggle]

As I understand it, the universe was infinite at the very beginning (assuming we accept that it is infinite) -- though there is a chicken and an egg kind of thing going on there . . . The Big Bang occurred everywhere in that infinity (or instantly created that infinity). So, what was "small" was the initial distance of one 'thing' from another, and it has been the distances (space) that have been expanding. IOW, infinite space has just been getting 'infinitier', aka, 'bigger' . . .

[@andrewzhuk8713]

"the more I learn about American history" reminded me about sterilization of people who had low IQ. I believe it was somewhere in mid 1900.

[@MrDino1953]

What’s a 10 metre meer?

[@ScienceAsylum]

Ah, there it is. I'm honestly surprised it took so long for someone to comment this.

[@doomhunta1094]

i loved this new style of video so much!!

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks!

[@aresgalamatis7022]

@2:20 is inflation taken into account?

[@elephantsintheforest]

Regarding the naming controversy. I think you missed the mark on this one. While you are absolutely right that the history was misrepresented, it is also not correct to portray James Web as separate from these events. He was in a key position during this time and the caim that he knew nothing or very little is fanciful. He was a key executive at a time when these series of unethical and ultimately unconstitutional policies where put into place. While he was not their architect he was complicit in their construction. I think it is also important to draw a distinction between him and scientists with complex lives. He's not being honored for scientific work despite problematic personal beliefs, he's being honored for his work in administration where his other actions also occured. Ultimately, my conclusion is that it was a pragmatic decision to keep the name. It was selected at a time when homophobia was still US government policy. It was kept due to inertia and (i suspect) a fear of the reaction of conservatives in Congress and the broader community. It is far from the worst naming decision that they could have made (or that has been made in recent years) but it is a great example of way minorities are often compromised out of a conversation and then told that their concerns are baseless.

[@erumaaro6060]

8:55 platinum tier comedy!!🤣🤣🤣

[@ericpug9154]

Well, there goes plans for the Trudeau telescope.

[@alexy.3512]

We absolutely should rename if occupying force demands it. Also, it isn't pronounced ES TEE SAI.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I know it isn't pronounced ES TEE SAI. It was a joke.

[@narfwhals7843]

It was a mirrorcal, you say? :D About the name, though, there's still the question why you'd name the thing after an administrator who wasn't involved in the project at all in the first place. NASA's named telescopes are traditionally named after scientists.

[@ScienceAsylum]

True. It's definitely an unusual choice and I'm not even saying it's the choice I would have made if I had that power. This video wasn't an analysis of the name though. It was just a history lesson (which involved a correction of misinformation).

[@gbreslin6635]

Hey mate, I like you. You're a good man :)

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks 🙂

[@ProductionsLightMike]

No pants is best pants...😂

[@devin8362]

Dude is. Legend

[@Neal_Schier]

Am I to assume that, American informalities asside, that it was better for all involved in the naming that he went by "James" instead of "Jimmy?"

[@hootszilla]

You hit it on the head that people compare their salary to the budget of the scope they say thats a waste of money, but when you compare 10 billion over decades its nothing when you know the us government spends a trillion bucks in one year on war....

[@theobolt250]

Congrats Nick! Finally! Out of the closet! You're a D&D aficionado! So, can we now recommend you for the Geek of the Decade Award? (The Century, ah, just too early). 😜😁😁

[@myleswillis]

2:29 😂

[@beriiO]

YAYYYY JWST AND SCIENCE ASYLUM ❤

[@PasiFourmyle]

Lunar-based when?

[@kingeternal_ap]

Aprendendo direito com o Science asylum... huh. That was neat.

[@Sugar3Glider]

Blinken is a real name? XD I thought Robinhood Mentioned in Tights was just making jokes.

[@ScienceAsylum]

I understood the reference 👍

[@JonathanMandrake]

to me, it seems like the red and lavender scare are both massive violations of the first amendment, but what do i as a non american know xD

[@chrimony]

Now we're told that the "far right" is "weaponizing" the 1st Amendment. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Oh, for sure, but (unfortunately) laws are rarely enforced equally and consistently (not even the bill of rights). They bend to the whim/mood of the people who enforce them.

[@simo9445tsns]

Loved the video, thanks 😌

[@ScienceAsylum]

You’re welcome 😊

[@mitchellminer9597]

Enlightening.

[@wiffleblat]

The US Deputy Secretary of State is called A.Blinken...Really?

[@thingsiplay]

I don't have any gras. xD

[@ScienceAsylum]

😆

[@cocopufer5667]

Seems like a waste of money when we could just get one for free from the aliens that keep crashing on our planet.

[@thekornreeper]

Nice

[@Odin029]

"while 10 billion dollars seems like a lot to an average person like us, it's not that much to a government"... Correction: It's not that much to the US government which can lose more money than that in a rounding error.

[@petevenuti7355]

Im lucky if I can have $5 , thats with a big F ! (No that's not my allowance, that was $1 if i mowed the lawn) 10 billion, with a big B , that's *_ONLY_* 4% of

[@haydengittins2836]

I have to admit I expected to see more kickback in the comments against your disgust of homophobia... then I remembered this is a Science channel so the average IQ is higher than normal. Great video once again.

[@ScienceAsylum]

Just give it time. The video hasn't made it outside my bubble yet.

[@danieloberhofer9035]

Oh boy, I can't even begin to tell you how much I wish this sentiment holds true. The atrocious ignorance some comment sections show is really hard to stomach sometimes. But judging from past experience, Nick's audience is indeed waaaaaaay above average when it comes to using their heads for more useful things than just housing the hole in which to put food in. 😉

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@danieloberhofer9035 I make a point to delete/block offensive comments. I want to keep my comment section friendly.

[@danieloberhofer9035]

@@ScienceAsylum 👍👍👍 I love how the Internet gives me more thumbs than I actually have to give a thumbs-up to good people like you, Nick.

[@playgroundchooser]

Nick, I probably overuse this; but this may be your best video yet. Learning about history *should* make one upset, as that is the only way we can avoid repeating it.

[@highlander723]

I think the title was a little misleading I was expecting a technical video about the challenges and building it not seven minute history lesson about the namesake.

[@joho0]

If you get upset about history, you might not want to read about Genghis Khan.

[@MusicalRaichu]

@@joho0 but the mongols are an exception to everything in history.

[@sacha9593]

The goal is not to "learn" about history but to feel superior to people of the past and to virtue signal. It seems to me that the cancel crowd* don't try to "avoid" doing the same mistakes as McCarthy and friends, they just try to emulate him for the other side. *I am not talking about Science Asylum

[@djgroopz4952]

​@@MusicalRaichuHow are they an exception?

[@jasonengel]

I appreciate the deep dive into the history surrounding the name for this telescope.

[@luudest]

After one year of operation and exciting results: No one asks about the money anymore 😂

[@chrimony]

We still ask about how long it took.

[@jayjasespud]

​@@chrimonyGood thing you have videos like this to answer, then.

[@chrimony]

@@jayjasespud There's no good answer. They messed up.

[@Nf6xNet]

Wow, this one went down some rabbit holes! I'm sure glad that JWST is a success.

[@jamesmnguyen]

That spectrum diagram of the EM ranges of JWST and Hubble was really cool to see. I wonder what the other telescopes would look like on that graph?

[@ScienceAsylum]

Thanks! I spent _entirely too much_ time on that graphic.

[@jamesmnguyen]

​@@ScienceAsylum Your worked paid off. It really showed how wide the EM range of JWST is.

[@highlander723]

It was the only good technical part of the video

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@highlander723 I actually intended this month's video to be a technical video about the telescope, but the video had other plans.

[@highlander723]

@@ScienceAsylum Hey make whatever video you want. Just make the title reflect the content. Its too clickbaity, you are better than that!

[@billyyank2198]

"Hexagons are the best-agons." Someone has been watching CGP Grey.

[@charleswood1193]

Yes! This is exactly what I was thinking! How long before he mentions @CGPGrey 's bees 🐝

[@boriskourt]

Yay! Glad you are on Nebula now :)

[@ScienceAsylum]

Me too!

[@fep_ptcp883]

The Nebula seems to be expanding, as predicted by astronomers

[@ScienceAsylum]

@@fep_ptcp883😆