It would be good to keep it, and a bit cheaper as to build another scope and get it up is costly. The shuttles need retireing and a new version built as satilites, spacestation supplies and other need can not depend on standard rocket deliverys. Those new images are fantastic. Saw them on the news at work today

Finalday

It's a Queen......she'll breed......you'll die.......Any Questions? /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Edited by - Finalday on 3/10/2004 5:45:00 PM

Man, those deep space images really make you realise how bloody enormous the unverse is. Makes you feel pretty insignificant too.

I hope that they save it, but I don't have much hope .

In this world, if it works... it's gone. That seems to be how everything happens.

We read about that in science class today too. We also read about a new Video game driven completely by your voice talking to this one hot girl on a space station.

I seen these pics yesterday it's really breathtaking and weird to think that were kind of seeing billions of years into the past

It makes pefect sense to me, considering the size of the Universe, and the speed of light, however I wish the media would stop calling Hubble, etc "Time Machines". It is really inaccurate. Stupid media...

AND THE GOOD NEWS IS..... NASA is being forced to re-think scuttling Hubble. Under Congressional pressure, the National Academy of Sciences now has been asked to review the situation and to consider reinstatement of a Shuttle mission to go up to do a refuel/refit and maintenance of Hubble to kee 'er up there a little longer.

personally i'd rather see a base on the moon rather than more pictures from deep space...

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

Should it even be saved?

Don't be so sure. There's a lot of heated, biased, unelightened opinion about the fate of the telescope. However this article might at least help clarify some things and quiestion a few believes.

MSNBC article

Personally I feel this is a reasonable commentary on the fate of the telescope. He sounds like he knows the field and at least didn't think that hubble images were actually real They're painted picture fyi

What he's saying basically comes down to this. The space station has priority over the telescope. The telescope is also unsafe to maintain, as NASA have rised their safety bars. Furthermore advances in optical technology allow men to observe the universe from earth's surface almost as well as ol' Hubbie can. So may be it's time to scrap the tin can and use safer and more advanced technologies in its stead.

Discuss

Edited by - Visconti on 3/23/2004 5:11:53 AM

Once the US gets it's Moonbase Alpha, won't they put a telescope on the Moon? Wouldn't that be better in so many ways?

hm.. i extend my sincerest apologies for not sticking this out earlier.. i'll dig up the links for you fast connection peeps to get the deepest look at the universe you'll get in a while.

as for the HUDF (hubble ultra deep field), well i got the fulll version copies of it, and i'll hm.. dig up a picture (a linky so it doesn't lagg out our dialup comrades)
=)


EDIT: so here goes;
Hubble Ultra Deep Field (this is a relatively small one)

Hubble Ultra Deep Field (this is a bigger one, bout 2~3mb i guess)

Hubble Ultra Deep Field site (this is where you get access to two versions of the very full version of HUDF, one is 64mb(jpg), the other is 104mb (tiff)

da astronomer

Edited by - kimk on 3/23/2004 2:39:22 AM


EDIT2:
@taw, though the moon will be a much more stable thing to stick a telescope on, you have to realise that the moon is far further out than hubble is. its so much more economical to service hubble rather than to spend about 400 times more than the cost of each service to stick a base and a telescope on the moon.

and hubble isn't gonna live for 400 services. even i have to admit that.

the NASA dudes are gonna have to cut out on all other projects. what? 2007?! nop. they're gonna have to get a shuttle up in the air bound for dear old hubble no later than end of 2005. like i said, over the long and short run, taking good care of hubble is far better than something as far fetched as bush's idea. take good care of an antique.

Edited by - kimk on 3/23/2004 2:43:47 AM

no kimk the point is that IF they get their moonbase, THEN put a telescope there cos they can service it locally.