axialintellectual t1_j7rmtl1 wrote
Reply to comment by MrMunchkin in The James Webb Space Telescope just found an asteroid by total accident, its smallest object yet by pecika
> there's too much to unpack here
Well, no, there really isn't. You say Webb produces data 'without intervention by a human', and 'a huge amount of findings [are] produced by an algorithm'. That's a really weird way of putting it, because the vast majority of Webb time is obtained by individual projects designed to look at specific things, with dedicated analysis plans. Of course there's a nonneglible amount of bycatch, so to speak - but that's not what I read in your comment.
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