Happy Birthday Hubble!
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A nice article with awesome pics here.[^] Marc
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Found this remark interesting: Quote New light? The beauty of Hubble is actually seeing some of the oldest light in the Universe. Unquote Does this imply that the "Hubble-equivalent" created by them aliens, several billion light years away - may not even spot our Earth? Since it did not simply exist.
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A nice article with awesome pics here.[^] Marc
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Damn! We didn't get it a pressie!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A nice article with awesome pics here.[^] Marc
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Incredible shots! I never knew there were 4 of them.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site. I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Incredible shots! I never knew there were 4 of them.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site. I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
Mike Hankey wrote:
I never knew there were 4 of them.
Yeah, it's amazing what is revealed when false coloring the light spectrums we can't see. Marc
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A nice article with awesome pics here.[^] Marc
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Now, now. I know that astronomy is so imprecise that it shouldn't really be called science, but that doesn't excuse being equally imprecise with facts that can be confirmed -- i.e. birthdays. It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
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Now, now. I know that astronomy is so imprecise that it shouldn't really be called science, but that doesn't excuse being equally imprecise with facts that can be confirmed -- i.e. birthdays. It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
Touche. You should be able to read my mind though -- I clearly said "Happy Birthday Hubble Space Telescope" even though I didn't write it. At least, that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind. ;) Marc
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
Touche. You should be able to read my mind though -- I clearly said "Happy Birthday Hubble Space Telescope" even though I didn't write it. At least, that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind. ;) Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind.
But that comes with benefits. :~
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy. In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
Touche. You should be able to read my mind though -- I clearly said "Happy Birthday Hubble Space Telescope" even though I didn't write it. At least, that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind. ;) Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
that's what my gf keeps telling me, about reading her mind
My missus is convinced that I can read her mind but I ignore her. That gives her carte blanche to blame me for everything, because I should pay attention.
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Now, now. I know that astronomy is so imprecise that it shouldn't really be called science, but that doesn't excuse being equally imprecise with facts that can be confirmed -- i.e. birthdays. It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
True (he was born on 20 November 1889) but to the general public the name "Hubble" is associated with the space telescope and not with the man. Last Saturday the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum had a special day celebrating the Hubble, with several astronauts from Hubble missions talking about their experiences. I spent most of the day handing out NASA material on the Hubble to museum visitors; although in talking to the visitors I sometimes brought up Hubble-the-man I don't recall a single time that a visitor initiated a discussion of anything but Hubble-the-telescope. Fun fact: you can in part thank the Hubble for the CCD in your camera. Some of the early proponents of the HST wanted to use analog video to return images to Earth, but others, including NASA's first Chief of Astronomy (Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, in whose honor NASA named one of its four fellowships), held out for using the newly-invented CCD, and (after pushing its development to improve its size and sensitivity) they won - and as they say, the rest is history. For readers interested in a brief summary of Hubble-the-man and his contribution to cosmology, try http://www.pnas.org/site/classics/classics2.xhtml ("pnas" := "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences")
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's the birthday of the "Space Telescope". I very much doubt that Edwin Hubble's birthday falls on the same day.
True (he was born on 20 November 1889) but to the general public the name "Hubble" is associated with the space telescope and not with the man. Last Saturday the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum had a special day celebrating the Hubble, with several astronauts from Hubble missions talking about their experiences. I spent most of the day handing out NASA material on the Hubble to museum visitors; although in talking to the visitors I sometimes brought up Hubble-the-man I don't recall a single time that a visitor initiated a discussion of anything but Hubble-the-telescope. Fun fact: you can in part thank the Hubble for the CCD in your camera. Some of the early proponents of the HST wanted to use analog video to return images to Earth, but others, including NASA's first Chief of Astronomy (Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, in whose honor NASA named one of its four fellowships), held out for using the newly-invented CCD, and (after pushing its development to improve its size and sensitivity) they won - and as they say, the rest is history. For readers interested in a brief summary of Hubble-the-man and his contribution to cosmology, try http://www.pnas.org/site/classics/classics2.xhtml ("pnas" := "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences")
It's still just a lump of hardware. The man was so much more.
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