I can see my house from there

And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures. Well done seattlepi.

Smeggy Smurf: I can see my house Uranus from there

Was this one included?

/dnrtfa

sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Because a God who created a vast universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies is completely preoccupied with whether we teach high school students about the existence of condoms.

2012 estimated US military budget: $1.03 - $1.42 trillion Link

2012 estimated NASA budget $17.8 billion Link

Relative comparison for the math impaired:

Military
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NASA
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And all free of any trademark or copywright.

Love the Hubble.

Your tax dollars at work.

Huggermugger: sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Because a God who created a vast universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies is completely preoccupied with whether we teach high school students about the existence of condoms.

God totally likes knocked-up teenage girls.

/can God create a chair so big that even He can have a seat over there?

The Hubble Space Telescope turned 22 years old this week, meaning it's probably old enough to get a job and stop asking its parents for money.


OMG LMFAO LOL LOLWAFFLE and so on and so forth........

Don't crack wise if you cant.....

Also, the total cost of the space shuttle program over it's entire history was about $192 billion. That's a mere 13.5% of one year of military spending.

sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

US was too busy bangin' your mom.

In other news, North Americans not in your mom are getting excited at what will become.

Uranus looks pretty.

Cambrian: Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures. Well done seattlepi.

And no descriptions.

whither_apophis: God totally likes knocked-up teenage girls.

Damn straight!

fzumrk: 2012 estimated US military budget: $1.03 - $1.42 trillion Link

2012 estimated NASA budget $17.8 billion Link

Relative comparison for the math impaired:

Military
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NASA
*

Tribal warfare continues to be what humans do best. It will never change in our lifetimes, sadly.

Sequence of shots from by the Hubble of the light echo of V838 Mon. In my opinion the coolest set of pictures to ever be taken by the Hubble telescope.

Hooray image processing.

sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Thank the religious-right zealots for that

hey, we've got a TSA to fund.

HST is awesome. That is all.

/no wait - first i have to brag
//my sister and her ex husband both worked in hst instrumentation/optics
///her ex was the lead on hst's 'contact lens' and later became spitzer telescope's program mgr
//now he's ball's program mgr for the kepler mission - which is rad as all farking farkity fark
/i've led a charmed life wrt knowing some really damned cool people in aerospace

Trance750: sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Thank the religious-right zealots for that

Thank Reagan for handing the whole goddamned place over to them, all for his self-serving political expediency.

jshine

whither_apophis: God totally likes knocked-up teenage girls.

Damn straight!

Cute picture, but Jesus wasn't European.

studebaker hoch: jshine

whither_apophis: God totally likes knocked-up teenage girls.

Damn straight!

Cute picture, but Jesus wasn't European.

Yea right! Next your gong to tell me HE didn't write the Bible in english to!!!
.
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/I spent way too much time on a couple of christian sites yesterday
// 4/10 ?

Mock26

Sequence of shots from by the Hubble of the light echo of V838 Mon. In my opinion the coolest set of pictures to ever be taken by the Hubble telescope.

That's a cool sequence. NASA did some digital enhancement to bring out more detail.

No Gary Larson yet?

Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was out focus and had to be sent to Lenscrafters?

I'll be in my bunk.

libranoelrose: Cambrian: Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures. Well done seattlepi.

And no descriptions.

Stop whining and just go to Nasa.gov and see the good ones.

studebaker hoch: jshine

whither_apophis: God totally likes knocked-up teenage girls.

Damn straight!

Cute picture, but Jesus wasn't European.

Of course -- he was born in Bethlehem, which is not in Europe. ...but that is totally unrelated to the point about knocked-up teenage girls.

Photoshop is one hell of a program.

APOD archive - a wonderful way to kill an afternoon.

Cambrian: Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures. Well done seattlepi.

And this.

Ok you whiners, go here: for some good pics

Cambrian: Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures and no explanation of what the hell you're looking at. Well done seattlepi.

FTFY

BishopHatto: Uranus looks pretty.


I thought it was unremarkable.

edmo: Ok you whiners, go here: for some good pics

Thank you!

Mock26: Sequence of shots from by the Hubble of the light echo of V838 Mon. In my opinion the coolest set of pictures to ever be taken by the Hubble telescope.

It looks like that star was bitten by a brown recluse spider

gameshowhost: Trance750: sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Thank the religious-right zealots for that

Thank Reagan for handing the whole goddamned place over to them, all for his self-serving political expediency.

Ummm....so no amazing breakthroughs in aerospace technology, satellite technology, medicine, computers and science in general during the 80's? Also, I wasn't aware Reagan was in charge in 1990.

libranoelrose
Cambrian: Amazing gallery=huge slideshow with low res pictures. Well done seattlepi.

And no descriptions.

There were some hints in the filenames of the images:

The space telescope is propaganda! The world is flat. Heaven is up. Hell is down. And if the world isn't flat, all of that water from Noah's flood could not have fallen over the edge. It is all part of the Catholic-athiest-socialist-commie-fasc ist-neo-liberal-centrist conspiracy to take away my morals.

limboslam: gameshowhost: Trance750: sharkbeagle: And in the last 22 years the US has become an anti science, anti knowledge country. All Hail.

Thank the religious-right zealots for that

Thank Reagan for handing the whole goddamned place over to them, all for his self-serving political expediency.

Ummm....so no amazing breakthroughs in aerospace technology, satellite technology, medicine, computers and science in general during the 80's? Also, I wasn't aware Reagan was in charge in 1990.

He used the prototype magic time machine Obama got in 2008.

Bookmark for later so I can look at these and save the ones I like.

And just once maybe we can get a thread without some depressed turnip mentally slashing their wrists about the fate of humanity.

Let's hope the James Webb Space Telescope continues to get funded. Those pics will be epic.

/not that these aren't
//long live HST!

I recall reading back in the early 90's an old issue of Discover magazine that had an article called The Big Glass about the construction of the HST. I recall how amazing the article was.
Here it is, someone posted it online. It's worth a read.

http://www.terrydunkle.com/glass.php

Here's a teaser, in regards to the Hubble mirror:

"On the scale of the Gulf of Mexico, the glass would have wavelets less than a millimeter high.

edmo: Ok you whiners, go here: for some good pics

My hero.

James Webb already got chopped.

/too much other stuff going on.

I was only 13 or 14 when that thing went up but I remember being intensely disappointed when it seemed like it wasn't going to work right.

With the various fixes applied it turned out almost as exactly as awesome as I'd hoped it would.

Yay HST! Yay Science!

studebaker hoch: James Webb already got chopped.

/too much other stuff going on.



You lie!