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Hubble has a problem. NASA says that one of the cameras on the almost 30-year-old space telescope – the Wide Field Camera 3 – is no longer operational because of a hardware problem.
"WFC3 is the major imaging instrument on HST [Hubble Space Telescope]. It is, frankly, the best view of the heavens that humanity has," Simon Porter, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, wrote on Twitter. "But apparently some bloody fence is more important."
Although the Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the sky since 1990, the WFC3 was added just 10 years ago during a service mission. Over the last decade it has captured spectacular images, including a high-resolution version of the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' – a gas cloud inside the Eagle Nebula that was first imaged by Hubble back in 1995.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @12:50AM (2 children)
What happened to the 46 billion they said to pay for this thing last time 6 years ago? Almost unanimous support too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:03AM
They built a few fences and the contractors were all friends of the right people, so it was no problem.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday January 11 2019, @12:43PM
Two words.
Eminent Domain.
There are still 85 active cases in the courts, more than a decade later.
This is why it is a fools errand.
Good rural Republicans owning land on the border don't give it up to government over-reach easily. And they are already preparing to fight. Good Democrat environmentalists are preparing to fight it out in court as well over Butterfly's and other desert creatures. Hell, we are all siding with the Good Catholics don't want an ancient church desecrated.
See? We can agree on something! It's the NIMBY syndrome! The fence will be some miles north of the border, so ranchers will be losing lots of land and free access to water for their cattle. A Butterfly habitat will be disrupted by the clearing of land as well as loss of habitat and migration ranges of endangered species. And of course that church whom feel it disrespects their history of sanctuary and cuts off a large swath of land they rent to poor people for as little as a $1000 a year. No one wants the government to steal their land, regardless of how they feel about immigration and the wall. Many of the people who live there don't want it, or rather, want it but not on their land.
https://www.apnews.com/0b3d63c524214bbdbfb58ce8f61589f0 [apnews.com]
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