The ultimate Christmas gift for us geeks 
Too much can go wrong, Iām just nervous lol first the launch, then the unfolding which will take weeks and canāt be fixed manually. If all that works out then the remote mirror calibrations have to work which will take months to set up. Na Iām just nervous lol
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Any space for dummies type podcastās anyone could recommend? Not YouTube, want something for when Iām running.
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So the stupid telescope unfolded successfully which was quite the delicate task where a myriad of things could go wrong but didnāt. Itāll keep travelling for another couple of weeks until it reaches roughly where itās supposed to be.
There itāll more or less orbit itās own arse and stare at some star for several months, as aligning the 18 primary mirrors to look at the exact same shit take forever when they move at the speed a blade of grass grows.
Assuming it doesnāt fuck that up on the first try it then has to spend a month or two calibrating the rest of the crap you donāt care about and if it doesnāt fuck those up either we can maybe get cool pictures by summer 
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Amazing that weāll be able to see images from millions of miles away and yet I canāt get a fucking decent phone signal from within my house.
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Exactly canāt believe people lap this shit up 
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