THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE: BILLIONS TO LOOK AWAY

Ahhh…what a wonderful year it is. So calm and peaceful, all is right with the world….not, I warned you!

And if you want further evidence that the big dogs in the world are dumping us…let’s look at the James Webb Telescope built with the participation of twenty countries at a cost of ten billion dollars.

Its role is primarily a follow up to TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) launched in 2018. Through TESS we have learned that planets orbit almost every star in the Milky Way which adds up to quite a tidy some…hundreds of billions. TESS has already identified five thousand exoplanets as of April, 2021 with around two thousand candidates so far.

Now the Webb telescope comes into play. The Webb telescope will be able to study the chemical composition of these nearby exoplanets. Study them in detail, their atmospheres, for key elements like methane, oxygen, water…the very building blocks of life.

The Webb telescope was initially conceived in 1996…the same time as the scientific revelation that fossils of bacteria material (signs of former life) believed to have originated from Mars, were discovered in a meteorite also believed to originate from Mars.

Now, in the same time frame as the Webb telescope is launched, suddenly these finding from 1996 are being denounced…hmmm, what timing.

There’s a lot riding on the Webb telescope and it’s not about money or us…it’s about the big dogs…in twenty countries…and you doubt this is a world-wide conspiracy?

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Brysen Mann

BRYSEN MANN

Canadian Writer, Author, Producer, Director & Actor

Brysen Mann is a storyteller who turned a lifetime of experience and a healthy distrust of the status quo into novels, screenplays, and indie films.

Best known for The Xeno Manifesto trilogy and his growing slate of short films, he writes from the edge of truth and fiction, observation and imagination.

When he’s not behind a camera or buried in a script, he’s watching the world unfold and occasionally unravel.