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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:42 pm
Oh wow. Amazing. o.o Very humbling indeed.
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:54 am
*blinks* wow... I actually found myself holding my breath watching that...
Incredible... thank you for posting that! eek
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:44 am
That is... awe-inspiring.
We are truly not alone. Now all we need to do is find a sufficent way to get out there...
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:58 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:04 pm
=D
I'm glad so many of you found that interesting. =)
It's the bit at the end where it keeps going that amazed me.
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:51 pm
And there's talk of sending the Hubble into retirement. scream
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:26 am
well thats ridiculous!!! >=O
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:23 pm
The issue is that there are parts that need replacing and that costs money. That's what it's all about.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:31 pm
psh. ><
so replace the dang parts...
otherwise eventually they're just gonna have to send up a brand new one...
which would cost more anyway?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:07 pm
They're also saying that they have all the information they need anyways and that there isn't really any reason to keep it up, or replace it.
I remember when the Hubble first went up there. There was a hair crack in the lens. The images came out fuzzy. That tinny of a crack, caused so much trouble for viewing. So they needed to send another shuttle up to fix it with a new lens. When it was fixed, suddenly they were hit in the face with fantastic images.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:18 pm
Actually, if memory serves, it was a flaw in the curvature of the primary mirror. A crack in the lens on the CCD camera would be easily fixed with a white field process in the imaging software. Any decent observatory anywhere would be able to deal with that without having to replace things. However, if the curvature of the primary mirror is wrong, the image never comes together because the light rays scatter in so many different directions that no image is actually cast, anywhere.
The deep field pictures are very important, but I'm not sure I would call them the most important images ever taken. Aside from being deeply meaningful and thought provoking, they began the process of determining the degree to which the universe is homogenized, which has a lot of implications for physics and the work that's being done on the Grand Unified Theory. But just as important are the images of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation taken on the FIRAS satellite. It's the shockwave that resulted from the Big Bang and, quite literally, an image of the beginning of the universe. And it proved that the universe is not perfectly homogeneous, like people used to think.
Berz.
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:27 am
I hve nothing to say. That was just like a slap in the face of how much possibilties are in life
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:27 pm
I loved it thanks fer posten it I'm one of them peoples that have problems with big numbers.
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