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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 11 2019, @04:50PM (2 children)
You are quite contemptuous, it seems, of culture and of Americans. The American culture and ethos have attracted people from around the world. American culture is widely copied and emulated around the world. What's the hot music in Korea right now? Korean hip-hop. Where do the movies playing in European cinemas come from? Mostly Hollywood. Where do the best and brightest around the world clamor to study? America. Which country's companies dominate the global tech scene? America's.
All those are aspects of culture, from creative culture to business culture to education culture, and the American culture comprising those looms very large in the world. So why isn't all that worth protecting? Should we trade that culture for Somali culture, because reasons? If all cultures have equal value, then why not?
I also must say I rather bristle at your slamming Americans as stupid, racist, superstitious, and ignorant. Some are, yes, but show me a country in the world that doesn't have that. Europe? The last thousand years of that continent's history is one unbroken tale of woe with regard to stupidity, racism, superstition, and ignorance. South Asia? You mean, the place where Hindus regularly burn thousands of Muslims to death and vice versa? The place where people get stoned to death for adultery? East Asia? Where the Han oppress the Uighurs, or the Japanese ostracize burakumin, or Koreans pan mixed-race kids?
And while we're at it, I'll note that you, Mr. AC, did not reveal what superior culture or country you are from, that you deem yourself empowered to hurl down thunderbolts from Olympian heights.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:22PM (1 child)
Lolk
Or perhaps you could realize that "the culture" is the new dog whistle for racism. Even if not racist it is a stupid statement because US culture is a mix of immigrants from many countries. Only over sensitive dummies react the way you have. Since you're so interested I am almost 100% European descent so it is "my" culture too, I just don't have my head so far up my ass to say shit like I replied to.
Heavy handed lightning bolts from Olympus is all the OP's racust shit deserved. Not consideration, not understanding for these poor white folk afeared of their kids hooking up with a *gasp* brown person!!
PS: since reading comprehension is just the worst around here let it be clear, i was mocking the one person's idea that the US has one culture, theirs, and that it is under attack. I did not say all Americans are stupid and racist, but hey when has that ever stopped the stupid train.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 11 2019, @08:42PM
Or perhaps you could realize that culture and race are not synonymous, and that different cultures are different, meaning some are more successful at securing the fruits of modern civilization for their practitioners than others. Your conceit is to hand-wave all that away. You assume that people who talk about culture mean race, because everyone who differs with you on this question must be racist.
America's culture is an amalgam of many influences, but its ethos encompasses all that and gives the country a commonality, a through-line that animates our world view. That is what people are protective of, and it does not make them racist.
It might surprise you, but a lot of the people who oppose illegal immigration the most are blacks and Latinos. Are they racist too?
I don't care much about immigration myself. It's not my hobby horse. But you would have to have your head pretty far up your ass to think it's not a lot more complex and nuanced an issue than the MSM wants you to believe.
Washington DC delenda est.