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More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
__roo writes "By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris for the first time. This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system. 'The star we observed is so close to Polaris that we needed every available bit of Hubble's resolution to see it'" said astronomer Nancy Evans of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts."
However, all of these comments are irrelevant. You all think that you really know so much, but you have yet to understand what really matters in this region of the sky. Save Hubble you ask? It is really a piece of space trash that must be abandoned, either as (1) space junk, or, (2) a fragment most desired to be burned in the atmosphere. Oh, the atmosphere. And since NASA forgot to design a heat shield platform onto Hubble, it is unlikely that it will survive the heat and stresses of reentry. A disaster is sure to arrive, such as that which happened to Space Shuttle Columbia on that fateful day a few years ago.
In conclusion, I strongly suggest that you all rethink your tooling as it would cost roughly $500 billion in American dollars to repair Hubble, but it would only cost $100 million to build the fusion reactor to power the next telescope that is designed to operate on the lunar parameterization of Mons Pubis. Be careful where you stand--our government cannot afford to pay any more for the Pioneer program either.
Amen.