JWST Mirror Wall Art

[bbflipper2000]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here so thought I’d share my first passthrough project on my new Glorforge Pro! I made the James Webb Space Telescope mirror as a piece of wall art the back is just plywood cut with the passthrough then the mirror is gold mirrored acrylic. I already have design ideas to improve it but that will have to come another time. I did also make a build video of this project if you are interested https://youtu.be/kCSsjnBCuEA?si=NFhvR5VIQiBFlorS

[ptodd]

Congrats on your new Pro! Great project.

[marthajackson1970]

Great project!

[Thumper369]

That’s fantastic! Reminds me of smarter every day.

[eflyguy]

I have a similar project but could not find gold mirrored acrylic locally. Mine actually has the concave curve in it. One day…

[pubultrastar]

This has been on my bucket list. Nicely done.

[ChristyM]

Great first project!

[bbflipper2000]

I got the gold mirrored acrylic on amazon

[ellencadwell]

That turned out great! Don’t stay away so long!

[rbtdanforth]

@eflyguy

Mine actually has the concave curve in it.

I was thinking goldish acrylic with a video screen behind stepping through actual JWST images. Perhaps even what is in front of the mirror added in as well. Unfortunately, my mind runs far beyond my ability to accomplish my ideas…

[eflyguy]

You could always just throw this up on the big screen…

JADES: GOODS South Fly-Through Visualization

This covers an area of the sky about as big as a thumb-nail held at arms-length. Close to 10,000 galaxies in that spot of the sky, leading to the oldest observable one at 14.32 billion light-years.

Feeling small yet?

[evansd2]

@eflyguy

Feeling small yet?

If not, take a look at this:

Nonlaser things that I think GFers will find interesting

Yeah it’s stuff like this that reinforces my belief that it’s arrogance to think there isn’t intelligent life out there. There are around fourteen million galaxies in that survey. There are about a hundred million stars in an average galaxy, so that works out to about 1.4 quadrillion stars. 1,400,000,000,000,000. If even a small fraction of them (wild guess, one in ten million?) have planets that could yield intelligent life, that’s still 140 million stars with those types of planets. And t…

[bbflipper2000]

That would be awesome you should just go for it.

[rbtdanforth]

@Nonlaser things that I think GFers will find interesting

If even a small fraction of them (wild guess, one in ten million?) have planets that could yield intelligent life,

There is a lot of intelligent life on this planet but almost none of them give a fig about electronics. And even those that do have only a tiny (mostly empty) bubble that their first manipulated waves have even reached. They expect to be around for millions of years, but can’t plan ahead for the next hundred. So even if a couple of million civilizations managed to survive for tenthousand years after discovering electronics, their electronics would not even make it across their galaxy while they existed much less to the next one even if they had ears sensetive enough to hear it. And with the probability of two civilizations overlapping in many billions of years the probability drops in inverse to the distance apart.

The whole speed of light issue is very disappointing. And if a way around it could be found that would be nice, but until there is so much as a concept of how to do it, the belief in it has the same probability as any other beliefs. If such be the case even the closest stars the could be reached might not be visited by the same species as left to go visit.