Posted on Jan 17, 2022
NEW! Mirror Segment Deployment Tracker - James Webb Space Telescope
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Good morning my Brothers and Sisters!!!
Yesterday we had a number of Tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service and local administrations in the Southwest Florida area! They ran from Venice, FL down to Marco Island, FL!!! The atmosphere was ripe for tornados as their was a cold front with winds in one direction and a warm front, with winds in another direction... When the storm front came on shore from the Gulf of Mexico, it mixed with the atmospheric conditions and the Tornado warnings seemed to be wide spread over a broad area... One of those Tornados, classified as an EF2 Tornado wiped out a large mobile home part in property adjacent to the Golf Course community... Homes flattened and sheet metal scattered for thousands of yards... Even the Golf Course and the Golf community homes in the area of the Mobile Home community were not spared and the damage was widespread! It was an exciting nail biting scenario to say the least!
Thankfully there were no nasty storms in the path of the JWST, which has now completed 91.26% of its journey to the LaGrange Point L2! It only has 78,474 miles to go, while it has now traveled 820,239 miles from planet Earth or 1,320,067 kilometers... Testing and aligning of the 18 Primary mirror segments continues and within a day or two, the JWST will reach its orbiting point L2 and will be set up for an orbit around that point in space... Then the fun begins, but I urge you to realize, that the first few images taken may result in more tweaking to facilitate perfect images...and then begins the scientific discovery of celestial bodies we have never seen before including the possibility of life bearing planets around their stars... It will also provide us with a better look at some objects we have looked at with Hubble and other such telescopes to find out more about them...
Stay tuned in, there is more info coming...
Kerry
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Yesterday we had a number of Tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service and local administrations in the Southwest Florida area! They ran from Venice, FL down to Marco Island, FL!!! The atmosphere was ripe for tornados as their was a cold front with winds in one direction and a warm front, with winds in another direction... When the storm front came on shore from the Gulf of Mexico, it mixed with the atmospheric conditions and the Tornado warnings seemed to be wide spread over a broad area... One of those Tornados, classified as an EF2 Tornado wiped out a large mobile home part in property adjacent to the Golf Course community... Homes flattened and sheet metal scattered for thousands of yards... Even the Golf Course and the Golf community homes in the area of the Mobile Home community were not spared and the damage was widespread! It was an exciting nail biting scenario to say the least!
Thankfully there were no nasty storms in the path of the JWST, which has now completed 91.26% of its journey to the LaGrange Point L2! It only has 78,474 miles to go, while it has now traveled 820,239 miles from planet Earth or 1,320,067 kilometers... Testing and aligning of the 18 Primary mirror segments continues and within a day or two, the JWST will reach its orbiting point L2 and will be set up for an orbit around that point in space... Then the fun begins, but I urge you to realize, that the first few images taken may result in more tweaking to facilitate perfect images...and then begins the scientific discovery of celestial bodies we have never seen before including the possibility of life bearing planets around their stars... It will also provide us with a better look at some objects we have looked at with Hubble and other such telescopes to find out more about them...
Stay tuned in, there is more info coming...
Kerry
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Glad all's well with you, amazing the difference a hundred miles cam make, we had damage but mostly related to trees being blown over. Testing days for JWST, hope it aces all of them.
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Yeah, Tornados unlike Hurricanes do tremendous damage over a relatively small area, but it can be horrific in and around that small area as it steams through! Six more days to go in the testing mode unless they protract it... Have a great day, Jack...
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Good news!
My Junior year in high school, I was helping my girlfriend's family rebuild their home after their furnace failed and overheated. I was at the rear of the house and saw a tornado, coming towards us and growing larger. Their back porch was made to be used as a shelter, so I got everyone out of the house, and we went under the thick concrete, watching as it grew closer. It suddenly made a right turn, and was heading away from us.
Monday morning we discovered that it had hit our high school, and it had broken or sucked out over 1000 panes of glass. The roof of the gym had been picked up and dropped back into place. Some glass blocks were sucked out of the walls. Window frames were damaged, and the building was full of broken glass as we went to class, with over 100 workers trying to repair the building during our classes. It removed the press box from our stadium, and bent several of the light standards over, right above ground level. The site looked like it had been bombed.
A lot of other buildings were damaged, as well.
http://www.midpointedigitalarchives.org/digital/collection/Crout/search/searchterm/Tornadoes/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and
My Junior year in high school, I was helping my girlfriend's family rebuild their home after their furnace failed and overheated. I was at the rear of the house and saw a tornado, coming towards us and growing larger. Their back porch was made to be used as a shelter, so I got everyone out of the house, and we went under the thick concrete, watching as it grew closer. It suddenly made a right turn, and was heading away from us.
Monday morning we discovered that it had hit our high school, and it had broken or sucked out over 1000 panes of glass. The roof of the gym had been picked up and dropped back into place. Some glass blocks were sucked out of the walls. Window frames were damaged, and the building was full of broken glass as we went to class, with over 100 workers trying to repair the building during our classes. It removed the press box from our stadium, and bent several of the light standards over, right above ground level. The site looked like it had been bombed.
A lot of other buildings were damaged, as well.
http://www.midpointedigitalarchives.org/digital/collection/Crout/search/searchterm/Tornadoes/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and
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SPC Michael Terrell
Sgt (Join to see) - You're welcome. We thought that all of our hard work was going to be destroyed. I was riding her school bus home after school, and we worked to 9:00 PM, and all day on Saturdays and Sundays. The wire was on Christmas eve, and we didn't finish until our summer break.
One idiot at school was showing off and said, "I'll bet that you've never been in your girlfriend's bedroom!" I smiled at him. "I wired it, insulated it, hung the drywall and did the joints. I painted it, and I put her new bed together." All of his idiot buddies were laughing art him as he turned bright red, and tried to sneak off.
It was a true labor of love, for me.
One idiot at school was showing off and said, "I'll bet that you've never been in your girlfriend's bedroom!" I smiled at him. "I wired it, insulated it, hung the drywall and did the joints. I painted it, and I put her new bed together." All of his idiot buddies were laughing art him as he turned bright red, and tried to sneak off.
It was a true labor of love, for me.
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