CNN has a slide show of Hubble’s greatest hits, and the CBC has a gallery of the Hubble mission and other space news.
The new camera has been installed, the gyros have been replaced, and one of the battery packs has been swapped out. Things haven’t been trouble free, but they are getting done. It’s kind of like working on your car under water while wearing oven mitts.
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life would be so much better if we wasted trillions of dollars getting pretty pictures of outer space instead of wasting trillions of dollars invading other countries.
not to mention the trivial fact the we might learn something in outer space, whereas we seem to learn absolutely nothing in other countries. ever.
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Those pictures generate a lot of hard science that explains the history of the universe, but understanding things is not on the agenda of the people in power – they would rather that everyone was ignorant.