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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: 3, Informative) by cmdrklarg on Friday January 11 2019, @03:23PM (1 child)
Yes, that is why the POTUS signs or vetoes the bills sent to their desk.
Mind you, if Congress wants something bad enough, they can vote again to override that veto. If they get two-thirds of both House and Senate to vote for the bill it is law, regardless of the POTUS.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday January 11 2019, @04:21PM
Which is why I feel like Congress isn't working hard enough. POTUS made it clear what he wants to see in the budget. If two-thirds of the House and the Senate thinks the president's demand to be unreasonable, like you said, then they can give the POTUS a big "fuck you" and vote whatever they want into law which would reopen the government. Why we don't see that is because the Democrats don't have a super majority and thus have to cooperate with the Republicans to get anything passed. And for the past decade or two, the only thing the two parties agreed on is voting for was wars on things. So the question remains, how many Republicans can Trump convince to keep supporting the wall during the shutdown? Because that will determine how long the government will remain in shutdown if the Dems are definitively not funding a wall. If there is any good to come from this shutdown, it creates a reason for the Democrats and Republicans to come to the negotiation table. When that finally happens, it'll likely result in a budget including a wall/fence or Articles of Impeachment. Both of which would likely get the majority of support from the American people.
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