James Webb Telescope launch in 10 minutes! (View Post)

Almost as fascinating as the instrument itself are the orbital mechanics. It will, hopefully, end up making small orbits around the earth's second Lagrange point, a point in space about 1.5 million m… (View Post)

I thank my lucky stars that I spent my younger years in a time before social media. (View Post)

More of an emotional overreaction. The point is that we were actually friends, and it is true that he didn't have many friends. His taking a job at AWE without even appearing to consider the ethics o… (View Post)

Please don't quote that comment! I'm busy furiously back-pedalling from it. Anyway, it's all a bit hypocritical of me, given that I worked for the MoD for a while in my younger and more naïve days! (View Post)