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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: 5, Informative) by isostatic on Friday January 11 2019, @12:53PM
universal health care which alone would cost $3 trillion
Interesting.
The UK spends about £120b on universal health care for 65m people, that's about £1850 per person.
If the U.S. spent £1850 per person on providing the same universal health care, it would £606b, which is $773 billion.
The U.S. currently spends $705b on medicare alone, and an additional $581b on medicaid - a total of $1286b on governemnt spending.
Universal health care would save the government money -- install the NHS, move everyone from medicare/caid onto NHS, and you save $500b. Perhaps Trump should suggest that, and say he wants 10% of the savings for his silly wall.
Total U.S health spending is $3500b, so even if your "3 trillion" number was accurate, it would still be a net saving.