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The Camera That Changed the Universe

StartsWithABang writes As the Hubble Space Telescope gets set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of opening its eyes to the Universe, it's important to realize that the first four years of operations were kind of a disaster. It wasn't until they corrected the flawed primary mirror and installed an upgraded camera — the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) — that the Universe truly came into focus. From 1993 to 2009, this workhorse camera literally changed our view of the Universe, and we're pushing even past those limits today.

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  1. Re:Changed the Universe? by Bite+The+Pillow · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You are complaining about the headline, but didn't even read the summary?

    For fuck's sake, please just tell your ISP that you are too stupid to afford their services.

    Headlines are atrocious here, and summaries slightly less so. But the summary does not suck as much donkey cock as your reply does. I hope you are a hermaphrodite, because you really need to go fuck yourself.