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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 05:22:43 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Someone asks why JWST can't see all the way back to the Big Bang and there are lots of good answers about EM wavelengths, CMB, quark-gluon plasma, density and other details about the early universe.
   
   But my favorite answer is the person who just "because the money ran out".
   
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   • Gamayun 🖤 (gamayun@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 10:21:23 UTC Gamayun 🖤

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     They couldn't get "big bang for their buck"...

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 10:33:04 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The answer lives in a superposition between pure nonsense, imformed whimsy and sincerity, but if we address the sincerity wave, I'm not sure more money would have done a whole lot at this point.
     
     I'm assuming we need 10 years of JWST to find out exactly what it is that we think we are not seeing and might be able to see, and then spend money on figuring out how to see it and money on seeing it.
     
     Luvoir will cost more money than JWST but I think it won't even see as far back, as it lacks the mid-infrared of JWST. It's more going for replacing Hubble. So I guess any seeing-farther-back mission would be a mission after that.