OT: The Hubble Space Telescope: the gift that keeps on giving

[LionJim]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Amazing, awe-inspiring, and humbling. I'm excited to see what Tess delivers starting in June with closer exoplanets.

I always thought my dream job would be working as an engineer developing equipment like this or an astronomer analyzing the data.

 

[psuro]

Amazing what the human race can create when it has the opportunity.

 

[harbest]

I often think about my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 3 years after the Wright brothers and she lived to see the development of the airplane, jets, sending a man into space and finally putting a man on the moon. When you look back and see what we accomplished in the last century, there is no limit to what man can do if we put the time, effort and money into a objective.

 

[demlion]

I often think about my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 3 years after the Wright brothers and she lived to see the development of the airplane, jets, sending a man into space and finally putting a man on the moon. When you look back and see what we accomplished in the last century, there is no limit to what man can do if we put the time, effort and money into a objective.

I had a great grandma born in 1881. After she died in 1984, i wrote my sisters a letter in which I went through that there were no cars in her town until she was almost an adult, she was 19 in 1900, 33 at the start of WWI, and 60 at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. She lived in horse and buggy days and watched man land on the moon. And every minute of that time she was a Yankee fan.

 

[demlion]

I had a great grandma born in 1881. After she died in 1984, i wrote my sisters a letter in which I went through that there were no cars in her town until she was almost an adult, she was 19 in 1900, 33 at the start of WWI, and 60 at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. She lived in horse and buggy days and watched man land on the moon. And every minute of that time she was a Yankee fan.

Oh yeah, i forgot my favorite....she paid into Social security for about 5 years, then collected for~ 40 years. Woohoo!

 

[T J]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

Massive Turquoise Water Bottle?

Rotate it sideways and some
dark blue vapor may be flowing out?
​

 

[ILLINOISLION]

I often think about my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 3 years after the Wright brothers and she lived to see the development of the airplane, jets, sending a man into space and finally putting a man on the moon. When you look back and see what we accomplished in the last century, there is no limit to what man can do if we put the time, effort and money into a objective.

My great aunt....and she was great.....lived from 1893 - 1999. Missed living in three different centuries by less than six months.

Lived her last 60 years in the same house just a block off the Bucknell campus. Widowed in 1952....her last few years kidded about dating only younger men because that’s all there were. Drove until she was 102.....usually only to church 5-6 blocks away. Sharp as a tack until the day she died.

I can’t even begin to imagine how I would have coped if I had led a similar life.

 

[Nitwit97]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

Thanks for posting this. It is a nice reset button. When we get full of ourselves and think too much of our day to day. . . Our whole planet and everything in it is just a speck in the universe. The wonders of which are infinite.

 

[PeetzPoolBoy]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

I’m interested to learn if the colors we see in these photos are thermochromic or thermosensitive...as in the photo is taken and then modified to depict the varying degrees of heat sensed by/in the image.

 

[T J]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

Clearly better than a 5-Star,
until Penn Staters showed interest.

Rivals’ downgrading to a two-star?​

 

[Waltwam]

I often think about my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 3 years after the Wright brothers and she lived to see the development of the airplane, jets, sending a man into space and finally putting a man on the moon. When you look back and see what we accomplished in the last century, there is no limit to what man can do if we put the time, effort and money into a objective.

Yeah, then we come on message boards and can’t get along. Mankind is awesome.

 

[Nitt1300]

Science, often denied- but still pushing on.

 

[LionJim]

Thanks for posting this. It is a nice reset button. When we get full of ourselves and think too much of our day to day. . . Our whole planet and everything in it is just a speck in the universe. The wonders of which are infinite.

1000 likes. Damn fine post. Great start to my morning. Thanks.

 

[T J]

Skeptical revelations revealing reality, are the core of the Scientific Method, throughout the universe.

 

[Post_ShockTherapy_MackDaddy]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

Awe inspiring. And, to think the LORD our GOD created all of this just for us. We should be so grateful.

When I look at pictures like this, I see GOD. And, to think he created this in 6 days. My simple mind cannot grasp this creation.

Awe inspiring, indeed. Bless you, LionJim for posting this.

 

[mn78psu83]

Awe inspiring. And, to think the LORD our GOD created all of this just for us. We should be so grateful.

When I look at pictures like this, I see GOD. And, to think he created this in 6 days. My simple mind cannot grasp this creation.

Awe inspiring, indeed. Bless you, LionJim for posting this.

 

[LionJim]

Awe inspiring. And, to think the LORD our GOD created all of this just for us. We should be so grateful.

When I look at pictures like this, I see GOD. And, to think he created this in 6 days. My simple mind cannot grasp this creation.

Awe inspiring, indeed. Bless you, LionJim for posting this.

So lame. Pathetic.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

Awe inspiring. And, to think the LORD our GOD created all of this just for us. We should be so grateful.

When I look at pictures like this, I see GOD. And, to think he created this in 6 days. My simple mind cannot grasp this creation.

Awe inspiring, indeed. Bless you, LionJim for posting this.

While I love the gif, you must go on ignore immediately. This is so wrong on so many levels. EVEN FOR YOU!!

 

[mn78psu83]

While I love the gif, you must go on ignore immediately. This is so wrong on so many levels. EVEN FOR YOU!!

He's losin' it.

 

[Post_ShockTherapy_MackDaddy]

While I love the gif, you must go on ignore immediately. This is so wrong on so many levels. EVEN FOR YOU!!

You're in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[mn78psu83]

You're in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[Post_ShockTherapy_MackDaddy]

He's losin' it.

I've accepted Jesus into my heart. It happened for Saul and he became Jesus' greatest Apostle.

It's called...FREEDOM OF CHOICE.

 

[PeetzPoolBoy]

You're in my thoughts and prayers.

“Prayers” connote that you believe in a “higher authority”, else why would you “pray”? Who or what is your “higher authority”?

 

[WDLion]

Twenty-eight years and still going strong. Huffington Post link.

Hubble's cumulative costs were estimated to be about US$10 billion in 2010, twenty years after launch.
At that price it shouldn't be called a gift.

 

[john4psu]

I often think about my grandmother. She was born in 1907, 3 years after the Wright brothers and she lived to see the development of the airplane, jets, sending a man into space and finally putting a man on the moon. When you look back and see what we accomplished in the last century, there is no limit to what man can do if we put the time, effort and money into a objective.

Chuck Noll on his induction speech to the Pro Football Hall of Fame said something to the effect of ....we can accomplish so much more working together with a common goal when no one cares who gets the credit for there will be plenty of credit to go around.