Planck space mission jokingly reframed as '3,000 subagents running for two decades'
jwt0625 · x · 2026-10-08
A playful take doing the rounds: the author describes ESA's Planck satellite mission as "spinning up maybe 3,000 subagents to implement this mission, over more than two decades"—reframing the generations of scientists involved as human agents. The post links instrument array photos from the 2010 pre-launch papers on Planck's High Frequency Instrument (100–857 GHz) and Low Frequency Instrument (27–77 GHz).
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