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Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet
MrBook2 writes "NASA have just released the Ultra Deep Field (UDF). This image took 800 exposures and clocked in at 11.3 days (!) of exposure time. This image is deeper than the Hubble Deep Field which has yielded a vast amount of knowledge. So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?"
those in power would rather break things and hurt people than do something constructive like explore space or feed children
And that's about it, too. If we'd channelled all the cash that the world puts into nukes, tanks, fighter-jets, aircraft carriers etc... and instead used it to fund space exploration, or heck even undersea, we probably would be a lot farther today.
What might they find if they have technology to make viable undersea colonies. I'm sure there are valuable assets untapped beneath the ocean, and we could grow food there, as well as mine minerals and other raw resources.
In space, well, there's a lot more potential but a larger timeframe involved. Again, if we'd put the money towards it, maybe they'd have some colonists on Mars already today, suddenly discovering there is water and aerable land. Rather than fighting over sections of our own planet, why not find some new places we can all share?