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Hubble Sees Stars As They're Born

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the proud-parents dept.

Artful Yankee writes "Space.com is reporting that the Hubble telescope revealed stars as they were being born. The article explains, 'The stars have yet to condense into small enough packages to trigger thermonuclear fusion, which is what powers stars, but they appear to be on the verge, astronomers said today.' All these amazing discoveries from Hubble and people still talk about abandoning it."

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  1. Old news by PhiznTRG · · Score: 2, Funny
    All these amazing discoveries from Hubble and people still talk about abandoning it.
    It's old news, that's why - those stars were born years ago and are probably already dead! Why can't we spend the money on something more useful, like an Anti-Gravity device!!
  2. Star porn... by mister_llah · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... and thus, star porn was born.

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  3. We need Intelligent Astrology in our schools. by FFFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enough of this crap about "star formation theory" and "gravitational lense theory" and all that other tripe!

    We need to start teaching Intelligent Astrology in our schools. The stars were put there BY GOD for our use. That is why we have constellations like Libra and Virgo: they are part of God's plan.

    We don't need no stinking Hubble Telescope, named after some queer godless astronomer, when we have books like Of Stars and People, which spells out exactly how God's plan is better than man's godless theories.

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  4. Re:In the name of Science... by vertinox · · Score: 4, Funny

    People just aren't willing to spend money purely in the name of Science. There needs to be a concrete reason for it.

    Maybe we aren't promoting spending large quanities of money into science in the right way or putting the right "spin" on things.

    Well I mean there are things like... well um... Manipulation of time and space... Free robot slave labor... Immortality... Technological singularity events... Virtual sex... Little things like that which we could grab people's attention with.

    I mean if we told Joe Sixpac that if we spend $200 billion in AI research now that he'll have a robot sex slave wife in 5 years he would be more willing to pay more taxes, right?

    Maybe if we told them we are looking for space chicks with the hubble and if we find any that he'll be the first to know!

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