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NASA Christens the Spitzer Space Telescope

Posted by michael on from the virtual-champagne dept.

LMCBoy writes "NASA today renamed the Space Infrared Telescope Facility to the Spitzer Space Telescope, after a great scientist. The renaming coincides with the release of the beautiful first science images from the telescope, which was launched in August."

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  1. He sure busted those mutual fund crooks, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...naming a telescope after Eliot? I dunno, seems like too much for me.

  2. Michael is a horrible editor who should be fired: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why? Why fire one of the most active editors on slashdot?

    Although they claim this is a news site, michael openly admits his extreme bias and his affinity towards slanting the facts to fit his predetermined notions.

    michael was hired in the middle of hijacking the www.censorware.org website in a very immature, unethical, and corrupt manner.

    michael will frequently censor entire threads down to -1, simply because he doesn't agree with it.

    Even worse, sometimes michael (or some other slashdot editors) will mod a thread down to -1, and revoke mod point priveledges if anything, *anything* in that thread is modded up.

    Of course, this is just a partial list. michael's unprofessionalism, hypocrisy, and immaturity are well known to most long term slashdotters. It's amazing that despite this, and despite everyone's complaints to him and CmdrTaco, he has yet to change. This should not continue. michael should be fired now.