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Hubble's Upgrade: Pretty Pictures
EReidJ writes "The Hubble Space Telescope has come out with astonishing new pictures, our "deepest glimpse[s] into the depths of space and time". An article on the photos is here. These are striking in their beauty, and are sure to become commonplace desktop images in the next month. The official site to view all of the photos is here, but the site's already going pretty slow. washingtonpost.com has the four photos in series on its home page." There are also stories on space.com and MSNBC.
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(b) Pics of mares' vaginasI like PrettyPrint on my TI-92.
It is better than the Hubble, because the hubble does not do binomial expansion for me.
Does the new camera really allow astronomers to take pretty pictures that they couldn't take before, or are they just using pretty pictures as a public relations gimmick? I imagine that it's possible that a camera that was better for scientists wouldn't necessarily make the pictures prettier. "Prettier" could be accomplished with false colorings and other cheap tricks.
Of course, anyone who knows anything about the Hubble 'Telescope' knows that it really isn't a telescope. Those familiar with the Flat Earth Society should recognize the tell-tale signs of their activities.
For those of you who haven't, I shall explain. When the astronauts are sent to perform 'routine maintenance' on the Hubble 'Telescope,' they are in fact uploading the latest set of imagery that the Hubble 'Telescope' will then allegedly view through its telescope and then download it back to earth. This way, scientists are able to 'discover' things that support their hypothesis and keep the myth of a round earth alive.
Before I get into this I just want to say that I am a Christian that does not think God and the big bang are mutually exclusive. I think people are narrow minded (both clergy and athiest) and use this as a way to argue with eachother.
That being said, what can we actually believe about what scientists say about the universe based on these pictures. It kind of sucks that they whole heartedly believe their theories and come out wrong a lot of times.
I think that most of their thoughts such as, there are many galaxies and they move around are true, but all this stuff about the expansion of the universe accelerating and the existence of dark energy. Heck, even the big bang theory is just a way to explain what they can't explain, yet they take it as a truth to build more theories.
It all sounds great, but pictures of entire galaxies when we can't see what is actually happening in small sections of that galaxy is not going to yield the most accurate data for the way things are in the universe. Maybe I just wish they would stop calling themselves right when so many before them have been wrong. (Maybe they would lose funding if they did that.)
I hope they continue to look and to try, but until they have better resolution than an entire nebula, it is hard for me to let go of the good probability that their theories are just science fiction.