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- BlindingDawn, on 10/02/2008, -0/+26Telescopes. Breaking the law for over 400 years.
- FirstDigg, on 10/02/2008, -2/+17I think as a celebration to the 400th anniversary of the telescope they should re-schedule the Hubble repairs to be this year instead of 2009.
- RealmDown, on 10/02/2008, -0/+8Well, it WAS designed for heavenly bodies......
- thealsir, on 10/02/2008, -1/+8I was in Europe during the recent lunar eclipse...wow, watching the moon slowly become covered in darkness was amazing. Not only that, with a telescope you could still see the part of the moon covered by earth's shadow...showing just how dark the darkness of space really is.
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/02/2008, -2/+8400 years, and we still have people that deny the wonder and awe of the universe. They cling to their bronze age view of the world, and nothing will convince them it is otherwise.
- drlha, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5You realize that planning, construction and testing a major fix to Hubble actually takes time right?
- Donboy, on 10/02/2008, -0/+4"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"
- Victor Hugo - inactive, on 10/02/2008, -2/+6If you know of a better way to subjugate females, I'm all ears...
- dabura, on 10/02/2008, -2/+6ahhh, the Telescope, my favorite tool to spy on the hot asian chick across the street.
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/02/2008, -0/+4LOL! ZING! Would you like a slave with that?
- mikbunn, on 10/02/2008, -1/+4Be sure to tell them how good they look every day, even if they're homely and unkempt.
And remember, nothing says "good job" like a firm, open-palm slap on the behind. - built2spill, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3I'm not sure which is more important - the telescope or the microscope. Both are way cool, though.
- Djerrid, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3FTA: The telescope still exerts a magic pull on us. During a recent Yankees game, with millions watching the World Series, a cameraman had some idle time on his hands, so he turned his TV camera to Saturn. Because a TV camera today has much better optics than Galileo's original telescopes, suddenly millions of people were seeing Saturn in its true glory for the first time.
Immediately, the phone went off the hook. People were demanding to know whether this was the real Saturn, or just a Hollywood special effect. The public reaction was such an unexpected surprise that the stunt was repeated on the second day.
I searched youtube but couldn't find the clip. Anyone else seen it? - spect3r, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Good story. I LOVED the part about the telescopes
- Scynet, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2The technique is almost the same anyway.
- empiric, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2"During the Late Middle Ages, Bishop Nicole Oresme discussed the possibility that the Earth rotated on its axis, while Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in his Learned Ignorance asked whether there was any reason to assert that the Sun (or any other point) was the center of the universe. In parallel to a mystical definition of God, Cusa wrote that "Thus the fabric of the world (machina mundi) will quasi have its center everywhere and circumference nowhere."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
"Late Middle Ages" being... before 1600. While it punches up a story I suppose to pretend that Catholicism spoke Ex Cathedra (the only circumstances of a claim of infallibility) on Geocentrism, and the Catholic Church was universally against such a model in some kind of facile "science versus religion" false dichotomy, it simply makes the reader who believes it dumber about history.
And the increasing number of such dumb people will even prompt this Lutheran to defend Catholicism. - healious, on 10/03/2008, -0/+1then there is the whole launch window issue too, its only feasible to reach at certain times in the year I think. could be wrong??
- FreeTalkLIve, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1I would like to see that myself.
- enantiodromia, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Buried. Telescopes are sinful, invented by the Devil to corrupt our youth away from the Church. I say anyone who points a telescope towards the sky, and sees anything but Angles, should either be locked up for life, executed, or both.
Don't even get me started on the claims the Earth is not the center of the entire Universe. That's heresy. - kebwi, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Suck it Catholic church!
- desertcoffin, on 10/03/2008, -0/+0One of the greatest inventions of all time. Great story... Dugg!
- 1730JP, on 10/02/2008, -5/+0なんかわからんけど、たまんね～ぜｗ
It's so amazing!
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