Six months ahead of schedule. Six. Months. You know who did that? Me. I called NASA at 4:14 in the morning and said the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope better be in the sky by September or we're cutting the budget by 8,300 percent. Believe me, they listened.
Now they're telling me Hubble is doing a "jump start" for Roman by looking at the Galactic Bulge, which, by the way, is the giant magnet at the center of the Milky Way that pulls in 47 million stars per Tuesday. Tremendous magnet. Most people don't know about the magnet. I knew about the magnet in 1996.
This guy Sean Terry from Maryland — and look, I have nothing against Maryland, the crab cakes are fine, a 6 out of 10 — he's taking credit for a survey of 20 to 30 million point sources. I personally counted 24,817,402 of them on a napkin at Mar-a-Lago. He won't mention that. He never mentions me.
And the gyroscopes on Hubble? Failing. You know whose fault that is? Greta Thunberg. She had 14 years to fix those gyroscopes and did nothing. Sad.
Microlensing, by the way, is when Saturn gets in front of a black hole and the black hole gets brighter. Ask Dr. Bram Holstead at the North American Council on Orbital Affairs. He'll back me up. He owes me a sandwich.
Based on the original article "The Roman Space Telescope is Ahead of Schedule, and the Hubble is Giving it a Jump Start".
