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Hubble Makes Millionth Observation
sfcrazy wrote in with an article about the Hubble telescope. From the article: "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away."
It'll be awfully hard to fix...
never win the war, nor do they get credit, nor do they care about any comment on whatever they did, most of the time they're dead by the time it happens, but when it happens, shit happens
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
Why does it seem like every time I read an article about space imaging, there is an artist's rendition, instead of an actual rendition of the image?
Shut down that orbital pork barrel and give me a tax cut!
Vote Tea Party!
It is impossible for me to roll my eyes any more than I am right now. Seriously. You can probably hear it at the rock you're living under.
Obvious troll is obvious.
The One Millionth Observation? "What's the deal with airline food [...]" The 1,000,001st was about how women are different than men, followed by an anecdote about the Hubble, its spouse, and brushing teeth.
"What is the deal with rental car reservations? They never have your car when you show up. It's like they know how to take your reservation, but they don't know how to hold your reservation." -- Hubble
looks pretty, means nothing....
Shut down that orbital pork barrel and give me a tax cut!
Vote Tea Party!
Let's do some quick math here (and I'm going to estimate high so you get all the benefit of the doubt):
$6 billion total expenditure to date / 21 years in service = $285,714,286/year
$285,714,286 / 90 million tax payers in USA = $3.17/yearly tax burden
It is difficult to believe that for a $3 change in taxes, you're willing to give up all of the research and scientific good that has come from it. I sincerely doubt the Tea Party believes that either.
If you believe that, you don't know enough teabaggers.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Well, thats only an average. Me and B. Gates aren't quite in the same tax bracket.
Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
If it could be de-orbited onto a line of medicare claimants the tax cut could be much greater!
Most of which are completely worthless but somehow don't spend billions of tax payers dollars doing it.
the curiousity core: "oooooooh! what is THAT!?"
Good people go to bed earlier.
There is another observation for you...
Since the James Web telescope was canceled today, these will have to do for a decade or two.
Some of us are in the same tax bracket as B. Gates, you insensitive clod!
Whenever in an argument, remember this.