The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

[Knuckledragger]

This has been going through my head for days now:

Original:

What it's based on:

 

[robm321]

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[skullguise]

Funny post of FB

And the best comment: "Taint that the truth" 

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[robm321]

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[Augsburger]

 

[Knuckledragger]

Can confirm, I did spend fairly large part of the 1990s doing just that.

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[Knuckledragger]

Q: What happens when a degenerate weeb has too much disposable income?

A:

[MexicanDragon]

2 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:

Q: What happens when a degenerate weeb has too much disposable income?

A:

Heh @ Dark Plates 2.0. Why would you not just get OG Dark Plates?

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[Craig Sawyers]

Panic buying Russian tubes

[Craig Sawyers]

I missed this a couple of days ago courtesy of Covid - but the JWST has reached full optical alignment. The alignment object is a star well within our own galaxy, and you can see the 6-fold diffraction from the hexagonal mirrors. It is only visible because of the extreme brightness of the star.

But everything else you can see are galaxies - right down to the faintest streaks you can pick out. This image is a tour de force of stunning optics and an astonishingly complex machine.

 

[Craig Sawyers]

Astonishingly though this is the first step - alignment of the primary to one instrument. There are umpteen other steps involving the whole suite of instruments, followed by "fine alignment". But that image is a first taste of what this machine will do.

 

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[mikeymad]

On 3/19/2022 at 5:57 AM, Craig Sawyers said:

Astonishingly though this is the first step - alignment of the primary to one instrument. There are umpteen other steps involving the whole suite of instruments, followed by "fine alignment". But that image is a first taste of what this machine will do.

 

yeah - can't wait until we can see what it can see.

[blessingx]

That first image is impressive, but still seems like lots of tuning left from the second.

 

 

[Knuckledragger]

Don't think about it too hard.

[Grahame]