Why is the pope slamming things? I thought that kind of behavior went away after the end of the Papal States in 1870?

Doubtful. Robots will kill us because of a human programming error long before then. It'll probably something stupid, like properly terminating a while loop.

Switch fields to something in STEM that makes more.

Is that still human?

Yup. We're human. We're designed to walk no more than 10 miles a day on average, interact with a group of no more than 140 people, hunt and gather food, remember a general oral history, and die around age 40-something. Instead, we drive or ride over a hundred miles just on our daily commute, are expected to moderate a thousand social media friends, do high school calculus, and have people living into their hundreds. We're already pulling way, way, WAY more weight than we're designed to; the heat death of the universe is so far out of our hands, and not our problem. Best to focus on that circle of 140 people.

Telemetry lost at T+6:51 with vehicle rapidly dropping before that. Arianespace CEO claims second stage underpressure issue.

It's frustrating, I went through the docket of Webb exoplanet observations and most of them, including ones in systems with known 'habitable zone' worlds, point the telescope at near-star gas giants like this one. Wish the mission team would prioritize juicier targets.