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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday January 11 2019, @07:30PM (1 child)
And no, Trump is not crossing any kind of river with this. (Or at least, Trump supporters - which I am not one - might see this as a crossing of the Delaware, not the Rubicon.)
It is not something which cannot be undone, nor is it something that Congress has to take lying down. Just because Congress *wouldn't* repudiate the emergency with a bill denying him the authority to build the wall does not mean that they *cannot* do so. Nor does it mean Trump would not respect such an order. Yes it is clear that Congress doesn't want to fund it and Trump should get the message, and he should start thinking he is a President and not an Emperor. But it doesn't mean the foundations of the law are torn down, either.
If you're looking for who to pin it on blame FDR [wikipedia.org].
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:43PM
I don't get the FDR blame from that link.