Comment by ianai
4 years ago
We just might learn there’s life elsewhere in the solar system thanks to Rocket Labs probe of Venus. Possibly a few other sources for this too.
JWST studies will begin pouring out results as the first one year lockup periods expire. There absolutely will be shocking results. (This being a prediction thread after all.)
Covid may finally recede into less and less of a concern. But only after China reaches a maximal level of infection and recovery. I read a figure somewhere they may have already had north of 250 million cases.
Personally, I’m hoping the world steps back from the brink of war. Maybe the violence and failure of Russian atrocities will inoculate the world from a larger war. Or something way worse is yet to come.
Really hoping at lease one solid state battery begins mass production. (I want an Ioniq 6.)
Edit: the larger dawning of the analysis from a recent Fed report by the market.: https://www.federalreserve.gov//econres/notes/feds-notes/the...
> There absolutely will be shocking results.
What scale of shocking are you predicting? Signs of extra terrestrial spaceship trails across the sky, or estimates of dark matter quantity adjusted by 1%?
It’s going to fall within the scientific mission of JWST. So it could be exoplanet or even solar system atmospheric footprints that are hard to explain without biology. It did several observations of Trappist-1, for instance. Or even seeing types of stars before now only theorized like the darker specimens or even a strange (matter) star.
Edit-You can see where JWST was pointed and when at the following. It goes one week at a time. The data is either immediately publicly available or withheld for one year for the requesting scientists. https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/observing-sched...
If it isn’t clear I’m a total JWST fanboy then let me just say it. I am an absolute JWST fanboy. I think telescopes have the best potential for widening fields like physics, chemistry, and more. This because ever increasing probes of QM require either astronomically large particle accelerators or unknown ways of accelerating particles. Further, the universe is absolutely huge and capable of much greater variety than anything we can engineer. So sitting back and taking notes is appropriate.