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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: 4, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday January 11 2019, @12:10PM
It is a waste of time, resources and will end as badly as last time.
Most drugs/weapons are brought through tunnels and legal crossings mixed in with legit traffic.
A wall addresses none of that.
The biggest hurdle is Texas. Landowners took the Government to court over eminent domain. There are still 85 cases active in the courts from last time. That's over a decade and they have not been resolved. This is the main reason IMHO that the wall is a fools errand. The money will be eaten by court cases with those good rural Republicans who live on the border and maybe, just maybe a small amount of new fence will be added.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-mexico-texas-private-land-use-2017-9 [businessinsider.com]
Plus, we catch more persons of interest on terror watch lists entering from Canada than Mexico. That is one wide open boarder. I live in Washington, and you can wander over the border quite easily in places. Before Legalization, we used to get a lot of B.C. Bud, they just hiked it over the border in backpacks. (hehe, now we grow better shit) There are border patrol, but it is nothing at all like the southern border, you can say it's there, but there are so few patrols from either country that it's essentially unguarded between legit crossings.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4824976/us-mexico-border-terrorists-canada/ [globalnews.ca]
Not to mention current traffic is much less than it used to be.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/25/us-illegal-border-crossings-analysis-trump-migrants [theguardian.com]
"According to the latest statistics from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 396,579 undocumented people were apprehended after entering the country illegally in 2018.
Another 124,511 people presented themselves at ports of entry, many seeking humanitarian protection, but immigration officials found them inadmissible.
In 2000, however, more than 1.6 million illegal border crossers were apprehended. In 2001, the figure was 1.3 million.
In the early 2000s, the largest group of undocumented migrants caught entering the US were Mexican men crossing to work. When caught, border patrol sent them back without long-term detention or court proceedings.
Many crossed again and again and some eventually succeeded in evading border enforcement. The high apprehension numbers certainly include many individuals caught and counted more than once.
Small ups and downs in the flow continued until a significant drop off at the end of the decade – from 556,041 in 2009 to 340,252 in 2011 – coinciding with the great recession, and the disappearance of the jobs many migrants came for.
In the following years, apprehension numbers continued to fluctuate between 350,000-500,000, with a low of 310,531 in 2017."
So, I fail to see the crisis in this. If anything, he should be touting it as a win, of course, he thinks himself Pharaoh and needs a monument to his (imagined) greatness.
If Mexico directly pays for it as he promised, fine. But I don't condone one dollar going for it from my pocket, just as you don't condone a dollar of your money for others healthcare.
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