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posted by takyon on Friday January 11 2019, @12:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the trubble dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by John Miller on Friday January 11 2019, @02:42AM (3 children)

    by John Miller (6613) on Friday January 11 2019, @02:42AM (#784824) Journal

    You're joking, but it's not funny. The caravans are real. They keep coming [reuters.com]. It's a dangerous trip for the migrants. When they cross our border illegally, they become criminals. When they bring drugs into our country, they become criminals. Many of them become victims of human traffickers. President Trump knows that we need border security. For two years, Congress blocked the funding. They put politics ahead of the good of our country, and of the migrants. Now President Trump is working hard to make a deal with the new Congress. He sees an opportunity to fund the border barrier and reopen the government. Good luck to him!

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Friday January 11 2019, @03:23AM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday January 11 2019, @03:23AM (#784857) Homepage Journal

    For two years, Congress blocked the funding. They put politics ahead of the good of our country, and of the migrants.

    Not so much. Trump/Senate Republicans could have had US$25Billion for a wall/border security a year ago, but *they* rejected the deal. [wtsp.com]

    Your narrative is smooth, but it lacks a crucial piece -- reality.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42AM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42AM (#784925) Journal

      *they* *senate* *republicans* *congress* blocked the funding, right? You only need a few. It only took a few democrats to block universal health care for the two years they held the power. This is a bipartisan method of business, while the wars get funded without debate. It's the game they play. This is the congress that wins elections over and over, so why blame them? Nobody lifts a finger to replace them with something more palatable.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:00PM (#785882)

    President Trump campaigned on building a border wall AND making Mexico pay for the wall.

    Why is the US government now in partial shutdown because the president is demanding the USA pay $billions for a wall?

    AKA: Moving the goalposts.