I was born just a few months, March, of 1957, before Sputnik was launched by the USSR. When I was ten years old a teacher of mine, Anne Schumacher, took our class to Huntsville, AL to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL for a tour of the facility. When we arrived at the gate were were met by no other than Wernher von Braun. Ms. Schumacher's Dad had worked for von Braun on the V2 missile project during WWII. Her Dad was one of the rocket scientist whom were brought to the US after the war. That chance meeting had an incredible impact on my life. It led me, basically, to the Aerospace Industry from which I am now retired. I'll be 67 years old in a few weeks, and to be honest, that chance meeting will probably be the last thought I have before crossing over into eternity. To all you young folks, I'm a little jealous of what you will live to see. Make me proud!
Thank you sir, that was very inspiring! A friend of mine coined the term "what a time to be alive!" when we were discussing such topics. And I often think about these words when I realize what incedible things I could witness during my life already, and I'm only in my mid 30ies. As a kid even flying was something rare and exotic and I would've only dreamed about getting into space myself but now there's a very good chance that'll actually be possible during my lifetime, as a tourist! Not to talk about the satellites in space we can order food or taxis with, right to where we are... But a great man told this better, listen to the "conversations with Joe" episode with Neill deGrasse Tyson if you haven't. It's worth your time, I promise, especially the part about times changing.
I'm 22, 45 years younger than you. I will do my best to do the generations proud but I want to mention that us younglings are unlikely to witness the same level of change in our lifetime's than you will/have see in yours. I would trade you for the opportunity to have lived through the most incredible era, the future for us younglings has been over complicated by too many variables and too many distractions.
LOL... Joe just casually dropping in the entire opening credits to "Small Wonder" and then just as casually going back to his story is the kind of random humor I need more of in my life.
@@ClutchMyPrimus1 It's kinda freaky that everyone from that well remembered show basically vanished from acting after it ended. The father has been on daytime soaps for decades but everyone else from the family barely ever acted again.
I found it annoying and wanted to get back to the subject of the video. It might have been a TV thing, in the US but almost no one else cares about it or even recognises it.
dude, you subjected us to an unreasonable duration of that show's intro, and i'm finding that i lack the words to properly thank you. good show, old chap
I guess the title sequence of Small Wonder gives those who were young enough to enjoy it a pleasant rush of nostalgia, but I was 26 when that show debuted. Its opening just made me roll my eyes and change the channel. I didn't know it was memorable - to anyone.
@@racookster I was just confused about what's small and wonderful until I saw the back of the little girl and was like, Oh, so the little girl is a slave robot?
Hey thanks for the shout out! I'm a little dubious PLATO will be that useful for finding exomoons. A big limitation is that they plan to stare at each field for 2 years. It appears from Kepler data that exomoons are rare interior to ~1 AU, which makes total sense. So if you want to find moons, we need to go beyond an AU, which means staring at fields for ~5+ years. It's still possible with a 2 year baseline, but just much harder, and PLATO isn't that much more precise than Kepler. PS Terrascope interesting future possibility too for this list! PPS Keep up the great videos!
10:06 Worth mentioning that the protests aren't all about the site being "sacred". The people i talked to were mainly concerned with the environmental damage. Apparently the telescopes are tapping into the mountain's permafrost to do cooling for the systems, and the negative effects of that. That can become a big issue when you live on an island.
How much of an issue is it actually, if at all? I know quite a few projects get major push back because people believe some pseudo science reasoning (misinformation) that it will cause damage to their land or otherwise cause economic harm when the opposite is true. Said projects are usually green energy projects and you can probably guess where the misinformation comes from (to be clear there are some projects that could actually cause damage, usually due to water usage). On a large continent with a bunch of homes tapping into the layer I doubt it would cause damage (though there is another comment thread on a different video where someone's arguing that it will, they also claimed EVs release more CO2 than coal powered steam trains so I don't much faith in their ability to reason). On a mountain with a project that presumably requires extreme cooling (I presume they'll have to cool some parts down to near 0 K) I could see the effects maybe being enough to exceed the frost layers ability to compensate.
@@glOckcOma in a country where some people purge educational books, education, books and related things, blocking that seems just a good choice amongst many possible bad ones.
"He's not going to show the full Small Wonder intro, is he? ... nah, I'll wait a sec longer... it's not the whole.... Ok I'm watching the full intro I guess. "
WE NEED A MOON BASE. For real. We need to hold off on the Mars boner for now until you've got a gas station (and eventually shipping yard) on the moon for further exploration
I think just making space-worthy metal sheets is really simple using lunar materials, so is using mass drivers to launch lots and lots of shielding. Since lunar gravity is so low, it's good that it's such a nice industrial size that can be run much like an oil plaform. Most of the stuff we need to build a 10000-person space habitat can actually be processed and smelted on Luna, only motors, computing equipment and biology would need to be brought up from Earth.
I had completely forgotten about Small Wonder. I'll be there are dozens of 80's sitcoms lurking in the back of my subconscious. What a strange decade to have a childhood in.
Good Old School Joe video, straight up. Thank you sir! I remember writing NASA at age 9 asking about some Apollo 11 videos where it seemed blurry (this is 1969, when I lived on the TV room floor for several days. Slept on a blanket. So, pretty real time question). They sent me a wonderful reply explaining how slow-scan TV works and some sweet NASA swag to boot. Extremely considerate to a little kid. Total props.
Visible light allows much higher resolution images than infrared. Resolution (really angular resolution) is limited by wavelength and the light gathering surface. A 2x larger mirror diameter bumps resolution by 4x--but moving from 21,000 nm light to 700 nm boosts resolution by 30x. The two downsides to visible light telescopes are a) they can't observe galaxies in the early universe (which is JWST's primary mission) and b) they can't see through dust.
Doesn't visible light limit how far you can see? Gets blocked, and cannot see through or past things? (Sort of. I know light can bend.) I mean I would love a good visible light space telescope made with modern tech. Just wondering if it is as useful.
@@dianapennepacker6854 There are tradeoffs for picking any part of the spectrum. Each mission picks the spectrum that best serves the mission objectives. Visible light: high angular resolution for the size of telescope, great spectral data for chemical analysis. But you can't see red-shifted light from early universe (distant galaxies) and can't see through space dust. IR (like JWST): See earlier into the universe (distant, redshifted galaxies). See past most space dust. But low angular resolution and freaking difficult to engineer. So a visible light HWO telescope is ideal for cataloging and learning about planets in nearby (100 ly) star systems. JWST is better for studying the early universe.
Love this channel, Joe is a great science communicator & I hope to see his channel as well as his other creative endeavors thrive for years to come. Thanks Joe!
4:13 I hope you realize how many of us paused the video to verify that this was in fact an actual show.. lol (sorry, it didn't get any screen time at my house)(never heard of it, and never heard of any of the actors involved!)
I just assumed it was but I'd never heard of it before. I was born at the tail end of 89 though so I would have only seen it as a rerun. I did watch The Munsters (preferred the old B&W ones), Louis and Clark, The Hulk (don't remember what the TV show was actually called but pretty sure it was 70's or 80's), Dinosaurs (or something like that), as an adult I was introduced to the worlds greatest superhero (or something like that), and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others.
I can't wait to see a day where we have paired sattelites in multiple legrange points. Think of the virtual telescope we have on earth that imaged black holes, but many times larger. Or something like the voyager program, but with telescopes that gains more and more perspective over time. We are a looong ways off from this, but this is the way things will need to go eventually.
I'd place my bets on the company that has had over 100 successful reusable launches with useful payloads to orbit rather than one which has less than 5 suborbital ones carrying tourists . But hey that's just me
I know Elon can be a douche, but this is an astronomically stupid comparison. Glenn is lesser in capability than the falcon 9, not to mention the heavy. Starship isn't dead it's in the testing phase dude. Its just that the testing is public for all to see. Don't let your hate for Elon to cloud your judgment.
If you haven't already checked out Dr. Becky's videos, treat yourself. She's an outstanding science communicator. She is incredibly smart, but is able to explain things that the average person without a PhD can understand. Absolutely worth watching.
Wonder what would've been more astounding to someone in the 90s, the image quality of jwst, or the fact the images will be shared across the globe, to nearly ever humans pocket as quickly as they're being produced
I hope Joe dedicates an entire episode to the insane and redundant engineering that went into the Voyager I and II. Fascinating machinery with computers made from 8-track tapes.
Sputnik was launched on my 6th birthday, October 4th 1957. It was an exciting time for us kids and presumably for school teachers. The next school day found me writing about Sputnik in my news book. I really wish that I’d had the foresight to keep it!
The TMT protests in Hawaii deserve their own episode. The Native Hawaiians are not opposed to the TMT in principle. The Kanaka are not anti-modern science deniers. In fact, the Native Hawaiians traditionally have been open to outside technology. The problem stems from the fact that the land is sacred to them, and decisions based on what happens to that land have been stripped from them. The Mauna Kea Observatories previously built left many promises unfulfilled and left a sour taste in the mouth of the natives and locals alike. Promises as basic as construction debris and garbage being taken off the mountain and disposed of elsewhere were not fulfilled. Instead it was buried on the mountain which was very upsetting to those who view the site as sacred. This story deserves to be told and I hope you find the time to do so.
The main issue preventing repair or service of JWST is, as I understand it, the need to keep the telescope side cold. Approaching from the cold side would warm those components, and there may not be enough power to recool it. Or something. I suppose this could be overcome.
Great Video!!! Small Wonder really brought me back a couple of years! I just hope I'm still traveling around the sun, alive, when HWO and these other amazing telescopes in orbit and on Earth are finally operational! I truly can't believe how much technology has blown up in my 53 years around the sun! I'd love to be around another 53 trips, but the way my body is destroying itself I'll be lucky to see the ELT in operation! Going to check out your other videos! I had no idea this channel existed until today!
Ya know, I clicked on this video, and up popped a recruitment ad for the United States Space Force. I remember how we all laughed when the idea was floated for this new military division, but now I wonder what it’s all about. Maybe you could do a video on that topic?
I'VE HAD MY FINGERS, TOES, ARMS AND LEGS CROSSED 🤞 IN HOPES for them to build and launch the 15 Metre LUVOIR. JWST mirror 6.5M, but the LUVOIR having a 15 METRE mirror? FURTHER, DEEPER AND CLEARER! Same design as the JWST but BIGGER! SO... As much of a leap in imaging JWST was from Hubble, the 15M LUVOIR would be another BIG leap compared to JWST... I just hope (🤞🤞🤞)it's up and looking out while I'm still alive (I'm 52 now) 😟😏 😎🇬🇧
What we really want is a constellation of far-infrared space observatories in a wide orbit, maybe even spread out across multiple Lagrange points? That would help map out a lot of stuff.
They keep shipping things out to L2 to for space observations. I’m interested to know how many things we could put at L2 before they start running into each other?
3:00 The other more "obvious" reason that we're talking about the next telescope is that all those brilliant engineers that worked on JWST are now, you know, just twiddling their thumbs. They're engineers, they don't like having nothing to do. (Obviously some gave moved into different projects, but the point is that the people and the buildings and the everything that was working on building the JWST are unused until we start building the next satellite.
Rather than hugely expensive monolith satellites that never stay on schedule, I keep hoping some space agency will figure out how to build swarms of small sparse array satellites. Sparse arrays could have apertures over 1 km wide, depending on the size of the swarm size, and would ideally be modular enough to expand them over time.
@nekomakhea9440 : well if you have $$$$$ maybe you could help!! :) sure we could do things a lot quicker, but what happens when it all fails out there, due to not enough quality checks???
@@bobm4378 Well part of the good part about a swarm is that any one can fail and the whole system is still good to go. That's the positive about going with a larger amount of smaller base parts of something than one monolithic thing that if it fails, your done.
It is funny, That you mentioned that Nancy Grace Roman telescope, searching for Dark Matter. Because Esa just started to work with the recently launched Euclid Telescope Mission. And this telescope also has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble and was also build and launched to find out more about the Dark Matter problem. I would have wished that this episode would have gone a bit deeper into the history of all space telescopes we as a global family have launched and what other countries all around the world are planning. But thank you very much for this update on at least a small part of the space exploration via space telescopes :)
We don't need a new f'ing home. We just need to take care of the only home that we have (and will have for the unforeseen future, if ever). Also, if we find a planet that is inhabitable and has other entities living there, what are the chances that they might not want to share their planet with us... If I was them I wouldn't even invite us in for a visit.
When the intro to Small Wonder came on, both myself and my husband just thought WTF? My husband looked at me to see if I was seeing the same thing, then was somewhat relieved when I said yes, because he honestly believed he was having a mushroom flashback. All very interesting stuff. Although, at age 56 my husband wonders if 'Don't Energy' (because it don't seem to exist) will actually be proved in his lifetime. Also, if there are delays like on the JWST, he will see these telescopes actually go into space.
Hey Joe, Why doesn’t starship and the booster have a diaphragm at the top of the tank that slides down the walls as the fuel gets sucked down instead of baffles? Wouldn’t that be a more effective way to get rid of the slosh and keep the engines from sucking gas?
Webb is the last mega money mission for NASA, with so many competitors we simply can't take those risks anymore. That's why Roman is literally half-a-hubble, but that's a whole different story.
Omg Small Wonder. I completely forgot about that show! And hopefully at least Nebula will be here. You’re one of my fav creators. Plus you’re in Texas 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻 Also, do you think you’ll do an update on Planet X. I know the people with the telescope predicted finding it in approximately 5 years but it’s been 8 years since your last video. Have there been any advancements?
MARK MY WORDS. One of the discoveries to be made will be that the universe...pause for dramatic effect... it was always there. THERE WAS NO BIG BANG!!!
I was born just a few months, March, of 1957, before Sputnik was launched by the USSR. When I was ten years old a teacher of mine, Anne Schumacher, took our class to Huntsville, AL to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL for a tour of the facility. When we arrived at the gate were were met by no other than Wernher von Braun. Ms. Schumacher's Dad had worked for von Braun on the V2 missile project during WWII. Her Dad was one of the rocket scientist whom were brought to the US after the war. That chance meeting had an incredible impact on my life. It led me, basically, to the Aerospace Industry from which I am now retired. I'll be 67 years old in a few weeks, and to be honest, that chance meeting will probably be the last thought I have before crossing over into eternity. To all you young folks, I'm a little jealous of what you will live to see. Make me proud!
We will!!! What a sweet comment, I appreciate that you shared this. And you still have quite a few years left to experience breakthroughs as well!
Thank you for sharing! That’s amazing. I hope you’re around to marvel at the new technologies in the pipeline.
Thank you sir, that was very inspiring!
A friend of mine coined the term "what a time to be alive!" when we were discussing such topics. And I often think about these words when I realize what incedible things I could witness during my life already, and I'm only in my mid 30ies. As a kid even flying was something rare and exotic and I would've only dreamed about getting into space myself but now there's a very good chance that'll actually be possible during my lifetime, as a tourist!
Not to talk about the satellites in space we can order food or taxis with, right to where we are...
But a great man told this better, listen to the "conversations with Joe" episode with Neill deGrasse Tyson if you haven't. It's worth your time, I promise, especially the part about times changing.
I'm 22, 45 years younger than you. I will do my best to do the generations proud but I want to mention that us younglings are unlikely to witness the same level of change in our lifetime's than you will/have see in yours. I would trade you for the opportunity to have lived through the most incredible era, the future for us younglings has been over complicated by too many variables and too many distractions.
i turn 27 years today. To see your life experience is amazing! I wonder how things will be in 40 years from now, when im 67. Its crazy to think about
LOL... Joe just casually dropping in the entire opening credits to "Small Wonder" and then just as casually going back to his story is the kind of random humor I need more of in my life.
My day is made lol
It totally killed me!!
I actually attended a recording of an episode back in the 80s with my drama class.
Man, memory flashback!!
@@ClutchMyPrimus1 It's kinda freaky that everyone from that well remembered show basically vanished from acting after it ended. The father has been on daytime soaps for decades but everyone else from the family barely ever acted again.
Yeah it was pretty funny but the ENTIRE intro was a bit much, tbh.
I found it annoying and wanted to get back to the subject of the video. It might have been a TV thing, in the US but almost no one else cares about it or even recognises it.
dude, you subjected us to an unreasonable duration of that show's intro, and i'm finding that i lack the words to properly thank you. good show, old chap
I guess the title sequence of Small Wonder gives those who were young enough to enjoy it a pleasant rush of nostalgia, but I was 26 when that show debuted. Its opening just made me roll my eyes and change the channel. I didn't know it was memorable - to anyone.
@@racookster I was just confused about what's small and wonderful until I saw the back of the little girl and was like, Oh, so the little girl is a slave robot?
Hey thanks for the shout out! I'm a little dubious PLATO will be that useful for finding exomoons. A big limitation is that they plan to stare at each field for 2 years. It appears from Kepler data that exomoons are rare interior to ~1 AU, which makes total sense. So if you want to find moons, we need to go beyond an AU, which means staring at fields for ~5+ years. It's still possible with a 2 year baseline, but just much harder, and PLATO isn't that much more precise than Kepler. PS Terrascope interesting future possibility too for this list! PPS Keep up the great videos!
The thing I remember most about Small Wonder, is the absolute HORID dress the little girl robot wore. Even for the 80's
I had never heard of it.
That what they say every decade so maybe humans don't have any fashion sense
@@southcoastinventors6583 YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!! Florescent leggings and skinny leather ties rocked! "RELAX"
10:06 Worth mentioning that the protests aren't all about the site being "sacred". The people i talked to were mainly concerned with the environmental damage. Apparently the telescopes are tapping into the mountain's permafrost to do cooling for the systems, and the negative effects of that. That can become a big issue when you live on an island.
How much of an issue is it actually, if at all? I know quite a few projects get major push back because people believe some pseudo science reasoning (misinformation) that it will cause damage to their land or otherwise cause economic harm when the opposite is true. Said projects are usually green energy projects and you can probably guess where the misinformation comes from (to be clear there are some projects that could actually cause damage, usually due to water usage). On a large continent with a bunch of homes tapping into the layer I doubt it would cause damage (though there is another comment thread on a different video where someone's arguing that it will, they also claimed EVs release more CO2 than coal powered steam trains so I don't much faith in their ability to reason). On a mountain with a project that presumably requires extreme cooling (I presume they'll have to cool some parts down to near 0 K) I could see the effects maybe being enough to exceed the frost layers ability to compensate.
You know, I went decades purging memories of "Small Wonder" from my brain.
_Thanks._
yeah, what the hell was that? ^^
Why anyone would want to purge such an amazing show is beyond me.
Yeah, I watched it back then, but it's gross, now. Could you get anymore goody two-shoes for a series? It would be at home on Cozy TV.
@@glOckcOma in a country where some people purge educational books, education, books and related things, blocking that seems just a good choice amongst many possible bad ones.
"Lames Webb" was right there Joe.
Oh yes! Lmao. It sure was🤣😂
Lame Pleb was right there DrySushi
@@garrenbrooks4778 that's too far removed
That escalation at the intro about “a different time”, I was drinking coffee and it almost went everywhere lmfao
Joe's humour is only getting better and better XD
"He's not going to show the full Small Wonder intro, is he? ... nah, I'll wait a sec longer... it's not the whole.... Ok I'm watching the full intro I guess. "
lmao
There's also the consideration of building a large robotic telescope on the moon, or even a moon based colony to upkeep a telescope like that.
WE NEED A MOON BASE. For real. We need to hold off on the Mars boner for now until you've got a gas station (and eventually shipping yard) on the moon for further exploration
The Mars idea sounds impossible and unrealistic the more you think about it.
The Moon? Day and Night. Think about that.@@myflippinggoodness8821
I think just making space-worthy metal sheets is really simple using lunar materials, so is using mass drivers to launch lots and lots of shielding. Since lunar gravity is so low, it's good that it's such a nice industrial size that can be run much like an oil plaform. Most of the stuff we need to build a 10000-person space habitat can actually be processed and smelted on Luna, only motors, computing equipment and biology would need to be brought up from Earth.
I had completely forgotten about Small Wonder. I'll be there are dozens of 80's sitcoms lurking in the back of my subconscious. What a strange decade to have a childhood in.
Thanks alot. Now I have a song I haven't heard in 35 years stuck in my head. I didn't even remember I remembered that show.
Yep. REMEMBER: In order to REMEMBER Now, you have to FORGET something else.
Uh... BTW... What day is it?
My wife, who is in her mid-50s, had never even heard of that show. I hated it then, and now I wouldn't even subject an enemy to watching that drivel.
Not alot but...
A...................................lot.
@@salinagrrrl69 AN OTHER with a penchant for proper spelling and usage. Rare breed.
@@dionh70 I don't know it but I hated it here. You've had good taste for a long time.
When I was little kid I loved Small Wonder, didnt realize how much till you dropped that clip lol
You just unlocked a core memory with that Small Wonder intro. I completely forgot that show existed.
Thanks!
I feel like the only way space stuff gets public support is if they say “it might find aliens”.
I just wanna see cool stuff.
Might find aliens, or might find fuel or some other natural resource.
Until you can find something you can smoke or eat on other planets no one will care.
What, aliens not cool? 😁🖖
But I'm good with anything new and exciting.
@@jochenstacker7448 I’ve accepted we will never see aliens in my lifetime. Ok cool, I still wanna see some amazing space stuff!
aliens are the cool stuff
Good Old School Joe video, straight up. Thank you sir!
I remember writing NASA at age 9 asking about some Apollo 11 videos where it seemed blurry (this is 1969, when I lived on the TV room floor for several days. Slept on a blanket. So, pretty real time question). They sent me a wonderful reply explaining how slow-scan TV works and some sweet NASA swag to boot. Extremely considerate to a little kid. Total props.
Visible light allows much higher resolution images than infrared. Resolution (really angular resolution) is limited by wavelength and the light gathering surface. A 2x larger mirror diameter bumps resolution by 4x--but moving from 21,000 nm light to 700 nm boosts resolution by 30x. The two downsides to visible light telescopes are a) they can't observe galaxies in the early universe (which is JWST's primary mission) and b) they can't see through dust.
Doesn't visible light limit how far you can see? Gets blocked, and cannot see through or past things? (Sort of. I know light can bend.)
I mean I would love a good visible light space telescope made with modern tech. Just wondering if it is as useful.
@@dianapennepacker6854 There are tradeoffs for picking any part of the spectrum. Each mission picks the spectrum that best serves the mission objectives.
Visible light: high angular resolution for the size of telescope, great spectral data for chemical analysis. But you can't see red-shifted light from early universe (distant galaxies) and can't see through space dust.
IR (like JWST): See earlier into the universe (distant, redshifted galaxies). See past most space dust. But low angular resolution and freaking difficult to engineer.
So a visible light HWO telescope is ideal for cataloging and learning about planets in nearby (100 ly) star systems.
JWST is better for studying the early universe.
Should not have been drinking my soda when he said people had tails😅
This channel is so good. Joe is so Great!
I missed that! Time to re-watch!
Love this channel, Joe is a great science communicator & I hope to see his channel as well as his other creative endeavors thrive for years to come.
Thanks Joe!
Why does my brain immidiatly go to "Contact" when talking about telescopes, hahahaha
The big question is why is the an axe in the background of the "totally not tangent" cam? @1:08
Love how You Tube never puts up the link you suggest at the end of your video... but love your stuff, you're amazing, Joe....
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you leaving the WHOLE opening to Small Wonder. I still find myself singing the theme song weekly.
4:13 I hope you realize how many of us paused the video to verify that this was in fact an actual show.. lol (sorry, it didn't get any screen time at my house)(never heard of it, and never heard of any of the actors involved!)
I just assumed it was but I'd never heard of it before. I was born at the tail end of 89 though so I would have only seen it as a rerun. I did watch The Munsters (preferred the old B&W ones), Louis and Clark, The Hulk (don't remember what the TV show was actually called but pretty sure it was 70's or 80's), Dinosaurs (or something like that), as an adult I was introduced to the worlds greatest superhero (or something like that), and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others.
That "small wonder" clip opened up a tiny memory from my childhood I hadn't even remembered I'd forgotten. Thank you for that.
Thank you for playing the entirety of the Small Wonder intro. The nostalgia was amazing!
You had every opportunity to say Lames Webb at 0:26 and you failed to take it.
I love that your channel is growing
i love the laugh smarter moniker.. this is a comedy channel first, where you might get some science on the side! keep it up joe!
I can't wait to see a day where we have paired sattelites in multiple legrange points. Think of the virtual telescope we have on earth that imaged black holes, but many times larger. Or something like the voyager program, but with telescopes that gains more and more perspective over time.
We are a looong ways off from this, but this is the way things will need to go eventually.
Even twin scopes for 3D range. Our eyes are only 2 inches apart.
I don't know whether to thank you or hate you over playing the entire Small Wonder theme song.
I’m so glad he played the whole intro. I had never heard of it. Now I’ve seen all I need to see.
I never heard of "Small Wonder" either but "Megan" was pretty good !@@normanwolfe7639
In 20 years, do you think Blue origin will have put a rocket in orbit yet?LOL
Thanks for keeping the whole "Small Wonder" intro in there... that was a blast from the past.
It feels wild that we’re already talking about JWST successors
Starship seems to be more of a dead fish in the water currently. New Glenn on the other hand already got contracts and successful launches.
I will be soooooo happy if Elon fails.
I'd place my bets on the company that has had over 100 successful reusable launches with useful payloads to orbit rather than one which has less than 5 suborbital ones carrying tourists . But hey that's just me
I know Elon can be a douche, but this is an astronomically stupid comparison. Glenn is lesser in capability than the falcon 9, not to mention the heavy. Starship isn't dead it's in the testing phase dude. Its just that the testing is public for all to see. Don't let your hate for Elon to cloud your judgment.
Ayyye Cool Worlds shoutout! Our exomoon fathers deserve the hype!
So much money thrown at generating nice desktop backgrounds...
If you haven't already checked out Dr. Becky's videos, treat yourself. She's an outstanding science communicator. She is incredibly smart, but is able to explain things that the average person without a PhD can understand. Absolutely worth watching.
3:31 😂 holy cow I remember watching the show when it was on prime time LOL
This was suuuuuuch a great video, Joe! Thank you!
Wonder what would've been more astounding to someone in the 90s, the image quality of jwst, or the fact the images will be shared across the globe, to nearly ever humans pocket as quickly as they're being produced
I hope Joe dedicates an entire episode to the insane and redundant engineering that went into the Voyager I and II. Fascinating machinery with computers made from 8-track tapes.
I went with my drama class to a recording of an episode of small wonder back in the 80s. It's brilliant that you've mentioned that. Lol.
The axe casually resting in the background of the "yeah I know cam" was foreboding...
Sputnik was launched on my 6th birthday, October 4th 1957. It was an exciting time for us kids and presumably for school teachers. The next school day found me writing about Sputnik in my news book. I really wish that I’d had the foresight to keep it!
Have you any information about the helion fusion reactor. It sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Am I the only one who misses the bongos introduction?
The TMT protests in Hawaii deserve their own episode. The Native Hawaiians are not opposed to the TMT in principle. The Kanaka are not anti-modern science deniers. In fact, the Native Hawaiians traditionally have been open to outside technology. The problem stems from the fact that the land is sacred to them, and decisions based on what happens to that land have been stripped from them. The Mauna Kea Observatories previously built left many promises unfulfilled and left a sour taste in the mouth of the natives and locals alike. Promises as basic as construction debris and garbage being taken off the mountain and disposed of elsewhere were not fulfilled. Instead it was buried on the mountain which was very upsetting to those who view the site as sacred. This story deserves to be told and I hope you find the time to do so.
That full Small Wonder opening credits drop was amazing and unlocked so much nostalgia for me! hahaha
at 10:18 the face cam suddenly moved down LOL editing error.
Hey Joe. Love the show. Ummm...
What is the axe next to your door for?
Go back a couple videos and see the sketch where he chases himself around the house holding a... you guessed it... and there's your answer.
The main issue preventing repair or service of JWST is, as I understand it, the need to keep the telescope side cold. Approaching from the cold side would warm those components, and there may not be enough power to recool it. Or something. I suppose this could be overcome.
Great Video!!! Small Wonder really brought me back a couple of years! I just hope I'm still traveling around the sun, alive, when HWO and these other amazing telescopes in orbit and on Earth are finally operational! I truly can't believe how much technology has blown up in my 53 years around the sun! I'd love to be around another 53 trips, but the way my body is destroying itself I'll be lucky to see the ELT in operation!
Going to check out your other videos! I had no idea this channel existed until today!
Ya know, I clicked on this video, and up popped a recruitment ad for the United States Space Force. I remember how we all laughed when the idea was floated for this new military division, but now I wonder what it’s all about. Maybe you could do a video on that topic?
I'll be reincarnating as a Space Force Marine.
Fair winds and following seas to all.
Oh wow thank you so much for the Small Wonder bit. Love it
I'VE HAD MY FINGERS, TOES, ARMS AND LEGS CROSSED 🤞 IN HOPES for them to build and launch the 15 Metre LUVOIR. JWST mirror 6.5M, but the LUVOIR having a 15 METRE mirror? FURTHER, DEEPER AND CLEARER! Same design as the JWST but BIGGER! SO... As much of a leap in imaging JWST was from Hubble, the 15M LUVOIR would be another BIG leap compared to JWST... I just hope (🤞🤞🤞)it's up and looking out while I'm still alive (I'm 52 now) 😟😏
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What we really want is a constellation of far-infrared space observatories in a wide orbit, maybe even spread out across multiple Lagrange points? That would help map out a lot of stuff.
Why do you have an axe near your door entrance? Do you feel safe Joe?
I had heard the Vera Reuben observatory might finally be the one to at least locate Planet X. I love hearing about Planet X!
Earth 2, such a great album, drone metal pioneer.
I mean, ALL the intro of Little Wonder. In a video about finding aliens. You bring so much joy to my life, Joe. Thank you.
Milkin' that Small Wonders Intro , to the last second , lmao
Thank you for usually waiting till the end of your video for sponsorships
They keep shipping things out to L2 to for space observations. I’m interested to know how many things we could put at L2 before they start running into each other?
What I find the most amazing is.. the footage of these telescopes in space. And watching rovers on Mars. Who's videotaping this?
0:35 ah the good old days. i still have my tail :3c
Mine's in the front but has become dysfunctional with age
3:00 The other more "obvious" reason that we're talking about the next telescope is that all those brilliant engineers that worked on JWST are now, you know, just twiddling their thumbs. They're engineers, they don't like having nothing to do.
(Obviously some gave moved into different projects, but the point is that the people and the buildings and the everything that was working on building the JWST are unused until we start building the next satellite.
I had completely forgotten "Small Wonder" even existed! Absolute genius comedy! 🤣
I had completely forgotten about that Small Wonder sitcom. I remember watching it as a kid, but only vaguely. I've slept since then.
I appreciate the fact that you played the entire intro to Small Wonder.
Great video. What's with the Axe?
The theme to Small Wonder was the nostalgia hit I didn’t know I needed today. 😂
Wow, tv theme songs used to be so long. I literally forget that I was watching a Joe Scott video before he finally came back. (No joke!)
Rather than hugely expensive monolith satellites that never stay on schedule, I keep hoping some space agency will figure out how to build swarms of small sparse array satellites. Sparse arrays could have apertures over 1 km wide, depending on the size of the swarm size, and would ideally be modular enough to expand them over time.
@nekomakhea9440 : well if you have $$$$$ maybe you could help!! :) sure we could do things a lot quicker, but what happens when it all fails out there, due to not enough quality checks???
@@bobm4378 Well part of the good part about a swarm is that any one can fail and the whole system is still good to go. That's the positive about going with a larger amount of smaller base parts of something than one monolithic thing that if it fails, your done.
It is funny, That you mentioned that Nancy Grace Roman telescope, searching for Dark Matter. Because Esa just started to work with the recently launched Euclid Telescope Mission. And this telescope also has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble and was also build and launched to find out more about the Dark Matter problem. I would have wished that this episode would have gone a bit deeper into the history of all space telescopes we as a global family have launched and what other countries all around the world are planning. But thank you very much for this update on at least a small part of the space exploration via space telescopes :)
Nailed it with the Small Wonder reference
Omg. Small wonder. My Monday needed that dose of nostalgia
Ohhhh man, memory unlocked with Small Wonder. I could've gone the rest of my life without remembering that it existed. Not sure how I feel about that.
We don't need a new f'ing home. We just need to take care of the only home that we have (and will have for the unforeseen future, if ever).
Also, if we find a planet that is inhabitable and has other entities living there, what are the chances that they might not want to share their planet with us... If I was them I wouldn't even invite us in for a visit.
When the intro to Small Wonder came on, both myself and my husband just thought WTF? My husband looked at me to see if I was seeing the same thing, then was somewhat relieved when I said yes, because he honestly believed he was having a mushroom flashback.
All very interesting stuff. Although, at age 56 my husband wonders if 'Don't Energy' (because it don't seem to exist) will actually be proved in his lifetime. Also, if there are delays like on the JWST, he will see these telescopes actually go into space.
I'm glad you changed the title of this video, the idea that humans are ever going to live on a planet other than earth is absolutely ludicrous.
Excellent as always!
Hey Joe, Why doesn’t starship and the booster have a diaphragm at the top of the tank that slides down the walls as the fuel gets sucked down instead of baffles? Wouldn’t that be a more effective way to get rid of the slosh and keep the engines from sucking gas?
Would it ever be feasible to put an ISS in a lagrange orbit? Or is that too far out to be economical?
Thanks Joe, now the Small Wonder theme song is stuck in my head…. AGAIN.
Outstanding, as customary!
Webb is the last mega money mission for NASA, with so many competitors we simply can't take those risks anymore. That's why Roman is literally half-a-hubble, but that's a whole different story.
What competition does NASA have for telescopes?
@@originalmin did you not notice many projects talked about are NOT NASA???
@@bobm4378 astronomy isn't a competition
Omg Small Wonder. I completely forgot about that show! And hopefully at least Nebula will be here. You’re one of my fav creators. Plus you’re in Texas 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Also, do you think you’ll do an update on Planet X. I know the people with the telescope predicted finding it in approximately 5 years but it’s been 8 years since your last video. Have there been any advancements?
What the heck was that TV-show? Intro went on forever... Now, give me ALF! 🙂
Don’t remember ‘Small Wonder’. Did that debut here, in the Orion Belt, before I moved from the Sagittarius Belt?
Thank u for that Small Wonder thing!!! And...
Love the fairing talk!😵💫😆
Remember the kidnapping episode on Small Wonder?; i still loved Charles In Charge.
20 years is wroth waiting for.. Hope to live long enough to see those images.. I´m 51 now but life can take a turn so you never know..
Don’t worry Joe. In 2028 if TH-cam is no longer your platform, there are many of us that will follow you no matter where you go! We just love you bro.
holy crap. I had not remembered small wonder for years. I watched every episode with my family. LOL
Thank you Joe❤🎉
You always make my evening after watching your videos
Excellent he has committed today to 30+ years of TH-cam!
MARK MY WORDS. One of the discoveries to be made will be that the universe...pause for dramatic effect... it was always there. THERE WAS NO BIG BANG!!!