Best Space Year Ever?
2022 has definitely been one of the best space years ever. James Webb, SLS, DART and many other major successes. So, let's turn around and remember what did 2022 bring us.
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Comments (4)
Being unfamiliar with NASA’s policy on how to choose what to use JWST for I can only make a general observation. The project selected by NASA should be chosen by its merits and given priority according to that; however, there is a possibility that influence and privilege may have bearing on the chosen subject (being that we are all human). That said, to give 12 month proprietary use could possibly be detrimental to science by not only the possibility of giving privilege selecting a project by influence, but by giving a privileged period to study that material which would almost certainly give the proprietary organization the advantage of first papers. Not giving a proprietary period would give everyone equal chance to study the material in spite of an initial project being selecting by influence, and everyone would have equal chance to use the material to avoid privilege. To penalize someone for working harder ie. 20 hours a day verses another working 8 would be counter productive to the science as a whole by ignoring the individual efforts of the researcher. As for just getting your name first, then that could easily work in reverse if the conclusions are wrong!
I would expect that all scientific research papers that use data from the JWST would be subject to the standard research publishing processes including peer reviews,
Yes, great production values— happy to be a new supporter!
Excellent video Fraser, all the best for 2023