Hubble back in full snapping mode

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We have a lot of spare parts if we encounter problems #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 10:24 GMT

This should be: "Ebay has a lot of spare parts for us if we encounter problems". Time to dig out those old 486 motherboards :-)

James Pickett

Wow! #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 10:51 GMT

One galaxy passing through another - how long did that take, and what was it like for the participants? It rather put global warming into perspective...

Richard Gadsden

@Anton #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 11:54 GMT

If it was made in 1991, it sure as H.E.double-hockey-sticks didn't have a 486 on it. Probably a 286, given how long space-certification takes.

Nano nano

Frank, #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 11:54 GMT

... I predict a failure in the SIC&DH module ... I suggest we let it fail, and then replace it ...

druck

Gyros #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 11:54 GMT

Lets just hope the remaining working gyros hold out until the delayed mission can get up there, or the backup computer wont be much use.

Tom Cooke

Hubble electrical replica #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 11:54 GMT

Hommage to 2001 where they ran a duplicate of HAL back Earthside and made it go mad the same way :-)

Neil Barnes

In honour of the late great E E Doc Smith #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 12:30 GMT

A couple of billion years ago, when the First and Second Galaxies were passing through each other and when myriads of planets were coming into being where only a handful had existed before, two races of beings were already ancient.

All that *and* nice pics - what's not to like?

jeffrey

Hmm, #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 13:34 GMT

Shame they haven't got two of these units, then they could replace both at the same time, rather than relying on a spare from earth, and one that has been dormant in space for the last 16 years (though still works).

Alternatively they could get a bit fruity and upgrade to a pentium!!!!!!

Anonymous Coward

Sweet Hubble #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 13:34 GMT

One of the best piles of money ever spent on technology. Now if we could get the idiots out of the war-room and back on the science track...

Anonymous Coward

RE: Wow! #

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 13:34 GMT

"One galaxy passing through another - how long did that take?"

Mere minutes, I think Hubble was watching them approach each other, but it broke so they missed it. Sod's law really, Hubble blinked at the wrong moment

And in all seriousness, on a scale of millions of years.

Martin