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Science - It's life Jim but not as we know it...

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  1. Treble

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    NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the agency's successor to the famous Hubble telescope, launched on 25th Dec 2021 on a mission to study the earliest stars and peer back farther into the universe's past than ever before. It's the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.

    Webb is currently at its observing spot, orbiting Lagrange point 2 (L2), nearly 1 million miles from Earth.

    It's now ready to take it's first images of a target star. That star is HD 84406, located 241 light areas from Earth and part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. The images will not be used for science, but will help the ground teams align the 18 golden segments of Webb's 21-foot-wide (6.5 meters) main mirror.

    Good video this.



    There's also a link tracking each milestone of the telescope's journey and discoveries.

    https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
     
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    This is trebles 1st thread innit? Certainly that i can remember.

    Good reason to close it if ya ask me @brb
     
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    I'm presuming that Coronagraphs, designed to see feint objects around bright light sources, will be used to search for planets around distant stars ?
     
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    I'll be honest mate, I'm looking at it as a layman and learning as I go along. It's amazing what we can achieve as a human race. That video and the bits I've read on what they plan on doing is brilliant.
     
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    I promised myself I'd start a thread when we played well. Been a while <laugh>
     
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    Some just don't make any threads.

    Some make too many <whistle>
     
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    Bring back the footie ffs.

    Oh hang on, his side are actually playing.
     
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    Thread started at HT.

    Though I can watch the match and post at the same time... usually when we're about to shoot.
     
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    The research team said the electrical implant had helped Roccati and two other patients – all men aged 29 to 41 – to stand, walk, ride a bike and even kick their legs in a swimming pool, raising hopes that small, implantable devices can help paralysed people regain more independence.

    How good is that <applause>
     
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    If it can do all this...

    The device helped all three patients to stand within hours of the operation, but their performance improved with three to four months of practice and training. “It was not perfect at the beginning, but they could train very early to have a more fluid gait,” said Bloch. She added that she expected similar results in women.

    “Thanks to this technology, we’ve been able to target individuals with the most serious spinal cord injuries,” Courtine said. “By controlling these implants, we can activate the spinal cord like the brain would do naturally to have the patient stand, walk, swim or ride a bike.

    that is truly incredible.
     
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    Thats the kinda **** you wanna see in life man. That's proper progress and evolution right there something to be proud about.

    Too much neggy **** gets the attention and more importantly the funding and investment when it's things like this that truly deserve it.
     
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    I can't find out if this guy made it<laugh>

    Was only last month
     
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    You seen the medical document attached to that newspaper article, that's some document and must be a complex operation. All interesting though.
     
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    You're not wrong there. Fck it, I'm not going to get cynical even though I want to. Just appreciate there's good things being done that change lives and quality of life for people and their families. There's all sorts happening in medical science, I'm expecting big news in cancer treatment soon, so many ways they're approaching it now, only a matter of time.
     
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    Nah I'm not going that deep <laugh>

    Its basic cybernetics I guess, how I'd word it anyway.

    Inspiring to see tbh I love the idea of all that blade runner implant evolution ****<laugh>
     
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    Hopefully one day the get the big c by the balls mate.

    That would really be a great thing.
     
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    It's a weird one mate tbh. We get rid of cancer and what does that do for over-population? Not sure if I feel quite right about saying this but maybe once you've lived a long innings you go how you go. But dying of it when you're a kid, or in your 20's, 30's, 40's etc which is just getting more and more these days just seems wrong. This illness has no prejudice, doesn't matter your age, race etc, it kills everyone. If we can eliminate that then families don't lose kids and kids don't lose parents and even couples starting out don't lose partners. It's the lives starting out or those that haven't been lived in full, being lost that seems the biggest travesty.
     
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    So like an age limit on the cure for cancer?

    Make it 100yrs old and I'm fine with it <laugh>
     
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    Me too <laugh>

    I think there will come a time when we'll probably find a cure for most things and people will live for hundred plus years, or maybe hundreds of years. There may even come a time when a generation will be born which, as they grow, will see life expectancy continually increases exponentially as medical science advances through their lifetime, so that in effect, they never die.
     
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