All Blog Posts Tagged 'telescope' (5)

It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!!

It's Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he'll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank's birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You'll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it,…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on May 5, 2012 at 8:55am — 2 Comments

Can I be Space President?

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In which Hank discusses his trip to Northrop Grumman and how odd it is that the same people responsible for the most important…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on April 6, 2012 at 7:13pm — No Comments

NASA: Increasing Awesome

In which Hank talks about the 0.45% of the federal budget devoted to space education, and what NASA is doing with that money.

Just an aside, my friends often say that we shouldn't be spending money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth. And I understand that argument. But I think that mentality is flawed. We can't wait until…

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Added by Ningmaster Tom on April 28, 2011 at 9:31am — No Comments

Top 5 Kick-Ass Things About the Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble's throne. In order to pick up extremely faint infra-red signals from extremely distant stars and galaxies, the JWST has to be extremely cold. Any noise from the IR radiation of the Sun or Earth would make it impossible to see as far into the past as scientists want to.

Thus, the JWST has to be a million miles from the earth, protected by a six-layer heat shield as big as a tennis court. This will… Continue

Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on February 2, 2011 at 5:10pm — 4 Comments