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AcidWarp
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posted 03-10-2004 02:26 PM
    
And they want to scrap it. . .pfffft fucking morons.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/73/36151.html-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 03-10-2004 03:43 PM
I hadn't heard that ANY replacement was going to be sent up in it's stead.All I had heard was that the Hubble was being let go, and nothing was going to take it's place. If it's true that another space based telescope is going up, then I'm somewhat relieved. -------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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FS
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posted 03-10-2004 04:02 PM
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until ESA and NASA launch the James Webb Space Telescope in 2011.
It says so on the page you linked  And yeah, land-based telescopes are already as effective as the Hubble, and a lot cheaper, so it's time to scrap that heap of junk, and replace it with something better. -------------------- quote:
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Wow, I can't believe I'm agreeing with FS on this one
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AcidWarp
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posted 03-10-2004 08:03 PM
Heh, actually, I only had time to skim it. I had company come over so I never got to read the full thing. -------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 03-10-2004 11:18 PM
lol@Cy-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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AcidWarp
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posted 03-11-2004 04:18 AM
It's not only that Willy, there is also the ambient electromagnetic white noise. Cities can throw a lot of electromagnetic "noise" into the atmosphere and that obscures non-optical telescopes as well.-------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
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FS
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posted 03-11-2004 02:36 PM
I only forward what I read  anyway, land based telescopes have the advantage of huge area, and the hubble telescope isn't anything fancy by today's standards. So the best land telescopes of today are just as good as the Hubble, but not as good as we could make the Hubble today. ...or so I read anyway. -------------------- quote:
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Wow, I can't believe I'm agreeing with FS on this one
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