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Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here-ya-go-bob dept.

krou writes "The Big Picture blog is running a Hubble Space Telescope imagery Advent Calendar, where for 25 days (it started on the 1st of December), a new photo will be revealed from the Hubble Space Telescope."

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  1. What ever happened... by Thelasko · · Score: 4, Funny

    to separation of church and space?

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  2. A picture? by HardCase · · Score: 3, Funny

    But...are they chocolate pictures? Mmmmm...chocolate universe...

  3. But why wait 25 days? by liraz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Showing one image a day for 25 days is a great way to generate repeat traffic for your blog and increase page views, especially if your blog is picked up by Slashdot!

    Or you could skip the middle man and go directly to the source and get as many beautiful HST images as you want... right now.

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    1. Re:But why wait 25 days? by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Showing one image a day for 25 days is a great way to generate repeat traffic for your blog and increase page views, especially if your blog is picked up by Slashdot! Or you could skip the middle man and go directly to the source and get as many beautiful HST images as you want... right now.

      Because thats what an advent calendar is!

      I understand that being skeptical of blog postings is tradition (and a good way to get mod points) on Slashdot but trust me, the Big Picture does just fine without needing to troll Slashdot for hits

  4. Wise Men complain by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today the Union of Wise Men complained about the Hubble advent calendar and released the following statement

    "How on earth are we meant to follow a star if using Hubble we can now see billions of the buggers and makes it clear that rather than being Wise men we are in fact just gullible fools who are clinging to an outdated set of beliefs and primitive ideas on how the Universe operates. We insist that the Hubble advent calendar and telescope are shutdown immediately in order to prevent our beliefs in star following being ridiculed as a result of this vicious use of information. The Union of Wise Men is in favour of scientific endeavour as long as it doesn't imply that star following is a silly way of finding things."

    The Union of Wise Men also denied that Star following tended to happen after they staggered out of a pub drunk and went "oooh look at the pretty star".

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    1. Re:Wise Men complain by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I've been reading through "The Audacity of Hope" by Barrack Obama. I am not a huge Obama supporter, but figure it would be good to read through the then-presidential-hopeful and now President elect's thoughts. One thing that impressed me is how Barrack identifies the "I'm right an will ridicule everyone who disagrees with me" mentality as the single most harmful element of political discourse today. He has a great point. take a look at Slashdot. Out of 100 "disagreement" threads, how many are actually civil? How many have folks listening to the other point of view?

      I know I am guilty of this.

      Your post did nothing to advance discourse. It was simply a poor attempt at humor and making fun of a belief system. Yeah, I know.... this is Slashdot. But for some reason I'm having a Don Quixote complex today and felt like pointing this out.

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  5. Advent is not 25 days long every year... by Sopor42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not even a Christian and it bothers me that Advent calendars are commonly 25 days long. Advent is NOT the days of December leading up to Christmas! It is the days from Advent Sunday (Wikipedia), which this years was 30 November, to Christmas. Which at one point in the history of this mostly harmless Earth was a celebration of the birth of Christ...