Hey, Plame. Sad News

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/science/space/30hubblecnd.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=8eb47c53ba428ddf&hp=&ex=1170133200&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1170170619-fhzB0aMfJ6lr6HSOJsVoow

The Hubble Space Telescope is flying partially blind across the heavens because of a short circuit in its most popular instrument, the advanced camera for surveys.

NASA engineers reported today that most of that camera’s capabilities — including the ability to take the sort of deep cosmic postcards that have inspired the public and to track the mysterious dark energy splitting the universe to the ends of time — have probably been lost for good.

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Why is this sad news for Valerie Plame?  She planning on using the Hubble in her book as part of her covert duties?









 

[Plane]

Oh rats!


I read about ths last night. I love the Hubble but its real troubble is how expensive it is.

Untill this sort of camera can be made more cheaply there will be a severe limit on our ability to see the universe at long rages.


The first beanstalk will cost much more than the Hubble ever did but a bigger Hubble and many other space rojects would afterwards be much more cheap.

The beanstalk is the Panama Canal of our time.