<story><title>James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075437484/james-webb-telescope-final-destination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tenemo</author><text>Destin&amp;#x27;s channel is one of the older, best-known channels in the YT&amp;#x27;s educational sphere. Recently, the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear submarine and tape classified information (later redacted). He himself worked in the military. I don&amp;#x27;t think that it&amp;#x27;s fair calling him a random youtuber, to me he seems like the perfect youtuber to interview such people (as Destin himself has a background in rocketry).</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>I think Destin of the Smarter Every Day YT channel had an interview a couple years ago with Dr. John Mather, the senior project scientist of the JWST, where he asked something like &amp;quot;will you be nervous during the launch and deployments&amp;quot;, and Dr. Mather replied &amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t get anxious about stuff I can&amp;#x27;t deal with&amp;quot;, and that they&amp;#x27;ve tested everything they thought of to test.&lt;p&gt;I was super impressed with Dr. Mather, not only that he seemed so wise, but also that this super busy man took the time to do an hour long interview with a random You-Tuber. I think the JWST project is in good hands.&lt;p&gt;Edit:
I guess Destin is not a &amp;#x27;random&amp;#x27; You-tuber, but someone that was well-placed to connect with Dr. Mather. Still, he&amp;#x27;s not CNN or BBC - he&amp;#x27;s a guy with a handheld camera that doesn&amp;#x27;t ask fluff question, but questions intended to help inform himself and his audience. Still think Dr. Mather thinking it was important to spend so much of his schedule with Destin was impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboshardy</author><text>&amp;gt; the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear submarine and tape classified information (later redacted)&lt;p&gt;They _paid_ him to tour it. It was a marketing event for the US Navy to drive recruitment.</text></comment>
<story><title>James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075437484/james-webb-telescope-final-destination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tenemo</author><text>Destin&amp;#x27;s channel is one of the older, best-known channels in the YT&amp;#x27;s educational sphere. Recently, the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear submarine and tape classified information (later redacted). He himself worked in the military. I don&amp;#x27;t think that it&amp;#x27;s fair calling him a random youtuber, to me he seems like the perfect youtuber to interview such people (as Destin himself has a background in rocketry).</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>I think Destin of the Smarter Every Day YT channel had an interview a couple years ago with Dr. John Mather, the senior project scientist of the JWST, where he asked something like &amp;quot;will you be nervous during the launch and deployments&amp;quot;, and Dr. Mather replied &amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t get anxious about stuff I can&amp;#x27;t deal with&amp;quot;, and that they&amp;#x27;ve tested everything they thought of to test.&lt;p&gt;I was super impressed with Dr. Mather, not only that he seemed so wise, but also that this super busy man took the time to do an hour long interview with a random You-Tuber. I think the JWST project is in good hands.&lt;p&gt;Edit:
I guess Destin is not a &amp;#x27;random&amp;#x27; You-tuber, but someone that was well-placed to connect with Dr. Mather. Still, he&amp;#x27;s not CNN or BBC - he&amp;#x27;s a guy with a handheld camera that doesn&amp;#x27;t ask fluff question, but questions intended to help inform himself and his audience. Still think Dr. Mather thinking it was important to spend so much of his schedule with Destin was impressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toxican</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s also in the middle of a coast guard series he filmed last year. Pretty interesting stuff.</text></comment>