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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, @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.