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, @05:00AM (2 children)
"ignorant, racist, and believing in sky fairies", however, does imply opposition to the faithful, regardless of the faith.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday January 11 2019, @05:29AM
Then use that instead of infatuated with "scientists and atheists".
Muddying the waters doesn't help anyone's point and doesn't even help the muddy-er put his own mind straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday January 11 2019, @06:33AM
The "faithful", as you call them, are marks, dweebs, suckers, goyim, gentiles, and worse. Every religion ever devised is a mechanism to extract wealth from its victims. So of course we oppose the "faithful", since we wish them not to be so sorely ripped of by the leaders of their scams. Is that wrong?