Light Echoes from V838 Mon

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:03 am

Pictures of the Universe are spectacular, to say the least. But what does it all mean to us humans here on this tiny planet in the Milky Way, that it what I want to know? This may not be the right forum for this discussion, but, Denny, what are your thoughts on this?

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:14 am

More importantly, if humans had not invented the Hubble Space Telescope and put into space, would this stellar event have occurred at all?

djm

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:49 pm

djm wrote:More importantly, if humans had not invented the Hubble Space Telescope and put into space, would this stellar event have occurred at all?

A much more interesting question than that stupid tree falling in the forest bit.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:49 pm

The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:34 am

Denny wrote:The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.

Idiots.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:04 am

jsluder wrote:
Denny wrote:The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
Idiots.

Perhaps you've forgotten we have wars to fight and moral mandates to foist.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:13 am

Flyingcursor wrote:
jsluder wrote:
Denny wrote:The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
Idiots.
Perhaps you've forgotten we have wars to fight and moral mandates to foist.

Exactly! It is just a question of priorities.

If God talked to you, how concerned with pictures of some of his lesser work would you be?
sneakin' up on answering Doug's question...

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:19 am

Doug_Tipple wrote:Pictures of the Universe are spectacular, to say the least. But what does it all mean to us humans here on this tiny planet in the Milky Way, that it what I want to know?

Every picture and every bit of stellar info astrophysicists gets us closer
to a full understanding of the origins of the universe, and the laws that
govern it. Perhaps this will help find out new, faster, cheaper ways to
travel, which would definately change the class struggle on this planet.
Chaos theory suggests that every increase in human knowledge has
waves of influence throughout society.

For a deeper discussion, see almost any James Burke book, but
especially relevant here is this one.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:45 am

I really enjoy the posted pictures. They affirm the wonder and the multiplicity of the artistic hand of God, among other things. Just a personal response...