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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @12:56AM (19 children)
Right now you should be more scared that Trump might declare a national emergency. Let's hope military insurrection is a real thing and the generals tell him to go to hell. Otherwise we are fucked good.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RandomFactor on Friday January 11 2019, @02:32AM (14 children)
The US currently has ~38 declared emergencies. It has been in a state of 'emergency' for ~40 years.
This is not new ground.
I doubt any of these were not either an overreach to begin with, or by still being in effect.
This one is only special because it's a flashpoint. That's not a valid reason to oppose it. The fact that its an overreach is, but if you haven't been opposed to, or supportive of, the ones in place since Jimmy Carter whose Iran sanctions emergency declaration is still in effect, then are you really being consistent?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 11 2019, @02:47AM (5 children)
[Citation needed]
Someone says 31 [fortune.com], but I'd be grateful for a list of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday January 11 2019, @02:56AM (4 children)
I just just searched and saw 31 also, I'll just concede the correction rather than digging for whereever I got 38 from (probably something outdated). The difference doesn't make much difference :-)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday January 11 2019, @02:58AM (1 child)
Yeah, that post was for GREAT JUSTICE!
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 11 2019, @03:27AM
Don't worry, it's just just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday January 11 2019, @07:31PM (1 child)
Actually, that would be interesting if 38 was right at some point. Does that mean that Trump has ended seven (plus however many he added) declared emergencies?
(Of course, much less interesting if your memory was just wrong by some random factor.)
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday January 11 2019, @10:40PM
The chart here gives it graphically as well as detail on all 31.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/politics/trump-wall-active-national-emergency/index.html [cnn.com]
Clinton created the most
Obama was next
GW Bush was third.
Trump has done 3 in two years and allowed 2-4 to lapse (hard to tell). I expect his numbers will pick up a bit now that he has an opposition house.
He's isn't really much of an outlier in terms of emergency declarations/year that I can tell, comparable to GW and Obama, but lagging well behind Clinton.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @03:08AM (7 children)
I'm a bit more scared of Trump. He is not fit. His predecessors were almost human compared to him (with maybe the exception of Clinton, he brought real slutty Hollywood sleaze into the white house, much worse than Nixon or Reagan).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @03:24AM (2 children)
brb, jacking it to melania nudes
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @03:38AM (1 child)
Really? A trophy wife makes it all ok? Does that bestow upon you some kind of vicarious male dominance or something?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @07:30AM
A trophy wife makes it all ok?
You gotta problem with that?
Does that bestow upon you some kind of vicarious male dominance or something?
You gotta problem with that??
GTFO!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 11 2019, @05:22PM (3 children)
That doesn't make any sense, based on the facts. Trump has faced North Korea down (at least for the moment). That should comfort you. Trump is bringing American soldiers home from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, which should comfort you. Trump has been ripping up trade agreements that have been killing American workers. That should comfort you. Trump has created lower unemployment for black and Latino workers than the last four presidents combined. That should comfort you. Thanks to the disruption Trump has brought to the status quo, long, long overdue wrongs like #metoo have been exposed. That should comfort you.
But "he scares you." Why? Because CNN and other mouthpieces for the status quo want you to be? He's more sleazy than a predecessor who got blowjobs from interns in the Oval Office? Really? You do know that a great many of those people calling Trump sleazy are the very ones who perpetrated or covered up #metoo for decades, right?
Honestly, step back, take a breath, turn off the MSM, and take a good long vacation.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 11 2019, @08:23PM (1 child)
Trump has faced North Korea down
If by "faced down" you mean "made more legitimate and increased nuke development capability" then sure...
North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say U.S. officials [nbcnews.com] But hey, it's just the security assessment of the CIA and NSA, fake new amiright!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @09:59PM
Not to mention the fact that nothing came out of that "summit" for the US other than intentions, and all the US needed to do was to give up their troops in S. Korea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:14PM
I thought this was a sarcastic quote, but then I really started to see that it wasn't. I disagree with many of your posts, but I guess I never really knew how ignorant you are of basic facts. Let's look at the data [stlouisfed.org] for a moment. You tell me where on that plot this supposed "Trump effect" starts. Fit a rough curve by eye to the data starting about 2011 and are you seriously claiming that Trump is the reason the curve keeps declining? About the only thing you can say is that he apparently didn't do anything to fuck up the trend. And what do you mean "last four presidents combined"? Are we supposed to add up the unemployment rates of the last four presidents?
I might be confusing you with someone else, but I seem to recall you making statements about having a physics or other technical background. If you do, and you are not currently in that profession, my guess is that it has a LOT to do with your lack of data analytic skills and graph comprehension skills. "Take a breath, turn off the MSM"?? It really sounds like you need to turn ON some kind of informative source. Here's a hint: it ain't anything to do with the words that come out of the President's mouth.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 11 2019, @03:29AM (3 children)
What is so bad about that?
President Trump declares a national emergency (just one of 30+). He siphons off some money from the Pentagon, which already gets too much funding as it stands, and gets to put up his fence or barrier down there. The government shutdown ends, and the Trump administration gets taken to court, again.
Sending troops to the border just before the election was worse - a wasteful stunt.
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(Score: 2, Redundant) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 11 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)
Yeah, I can't even remember the last time a President got a declaration of war from Congress before starting a war. Waiting for Congress to weigh in on anything is so passe. Did Congress even get it up to say anything about Obama assassinating American citizens by drone? I can't remember anybody peeping up about that.
So, really, Trump declaring a national emergency for this would be quite par for the course of every president in my lifetime.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 11 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)
So, really, Trump declaring a national emergency for this would be quite par for the course of every president in my lifetime.
Declaring actual disasters a disaster is par for the course.
Declaring a fake disaster a disaster in order to usurp the Congress' power of the purse is completely unpresidented.
Suddenly executive overreach isn't a thing. Color me surprised.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:22PM
Yeah, remember when it was considered an impeachable offense [theatlantic.com]? Seems like only yesterday.