The Washington Post had an article, ostensibly to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope.  It read like an article planted by a government bureaucrat to lay the groundwork to spend even more taxpayer dollars on the HT. The Hubble was designed to be serviced by the space shuttle. But the space shuttle fleet was retired in 2011, and the Hubble hasn’t had a repair job since that 2009 mission. At some point, under the laws of entropy that dominate the cosmos, the Hubble will begin to deteriorate — for example, losing its navigational ability as its gyroscopic sensors fail one by one. “It’s kind of like predicting when’s the next time your car’s going to break down,” said Jim Jeletic, deputy project manager for the Hubble at NASA Goddard. They want more money to be spend on it, clearly.  But what exactly is this money buying?  What great discoveries has the HT made? “It’s fantastic....(Read Full Post)