NASA Revives Main Hubble Telescope Camera 111
antikarma writes "NASA engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 9:12 a.m. EDT Friday aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. Checkout was completed at 10:20 a.m. EDT with science observations scheduled to resume Sunday, July 2. 'This is the best possible news,' said Ed Ruitberg, deputy associate director for the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 'We were confident we could work through the camera issue, and now we can get back to doing more incredible science with the camera.'"
Iiiittt's BaaAAAaaack! It's Scien-terrific! (Score:2, Interesting)
Let me be among the first to exclaim "Yay!" Like, totally forsooth and verily!
I was just in the biggest funk about this and not just because the DVD on the new Sky and Telescope reminded me of what we'd be missing. I know there's all sorts of swell and really keen new stuff on the way, but I've just got so used to going to bed at night, snug and secure in the knowledge that the big guy was still up there looking for spiffy cosmic phenomena.
I for one rewelcome our HST overlord.
pure admiration (Score:5, Interesting)
Whenever I think of the galaxies, outer space or human observation to these I cannot help the feeling of awe and admiration. I checked out the pictures on the web-site and I felt like I was watching Kubrick`s Oddysey. I imagine and see ( thanks to 10 times more powerful Hubble`s objectives ) the vast galaxies, millions of stars and the light reflected from them and converted to miliwatts of electrical energy in the human brain. I see the real physics out there, intersecting its ways with philosphy. That is really something different from what they do in solid state, or applied physics.
Hubble and its even more powerful descendants will enlighten the secrets of universe,
Come on now. (Score:2, Interesting)
As a fellow Brit to the original poster, I'm never going to forget this post (I have it bookmarked), I too was watching a big screen when 9/11 happened:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1551
Slightly wrong about the BBC whipping up a band - it was the band of the Royal Household Cavalry (I think), ordered by no less than her Maj.
USA is more like "Europe" than a Country in Europe (Score:5, Interesting)
In a day, I can travel by car across most of western Europe, through vastly different populations and beliefs. Here, it can take me that long to traverse Texas. Driving 24 hours on, 8 hours off, it took me 3 and half days to drive from Phoenix to Boston. Where would that take you in Europe?
Where I live in Maine, I find great similarities to the Bavarian countryside. You surely couldn't say that about the desert southwest in the USA.
A certain Austrian, having been elected leader of Germany some years back assumed that our differences would prevent us ever even agreeing with each other enough to be a serious player on the world scene -- let alone threaten his plans for world domination. That was as big a mistake as his election in the first place.
Our states and our divergent people are like a big Italian family. There are always some who don't speak to others, big traumatic fights, and long held grudges -- but when faced with a threat from outside, nearly instant, unified, reactionary, over response is close at hand to deal with that threat.
--31
Ode to the Hubble repair crew (Score:3, Interesting)
Eye in space, soon to be gone,
We can't just let it be.
It once was off but now is on
Was blind, but now can see.
Re:To Science (Score:2, Interesting)
As a Texan who had the happiness of owning a home in England for three years, I'd have to say I love the UK but it often disappoints.
The biggest difference between Americans and Brits is the sheep-like willingness of the average Brit to give up a lot of liberty for a little security. England really is a nation of girlie men. That's fine, but then they turn around and and join American moonbats in the ridiculous Bush-Hitler meme.
What would the average
1) The police can issue 'control orders' which restrict an individual's rights to travel, own property, associate with others, or hold a passport. Persons under control orders can be electronically tagged. Person under a control act can be detained up to 14 without charges being filed.
2) Cameras will installed on all public roads with software to read license plates. A central database will record the travels of every car in the country.
3) Cars will be fitted with sealed GPS recorders which will send position data to the goverment. Tampering with the gps box will be a felony.
4)If a goverment employee is suspected of leaking goverment secrets, then senior police officers can authorize a search of that person's home without consulting a judge.
5) If a newspaper publishes classified information then the publisher is subject to up to 14 years in jail.
All of the above are in place in the United Kingdom today except for #3, which will happen in the next few years.