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To: PIF

Sorry but I think Hubble is mostly George Lukas Industrial Light and Magic. It can focus on say Apollo 11 moon lander on the Sea of Tranquility, but can see a Crab Nebula 100 billion light years away clear as a bell.


17 posted on 05/04/2019 4:49:12 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputeca)
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To: Bommer

You’re free to have your opinions, but if you want them to be respected they should be based on fact.

Your opinion expressed in in #17 is based on gross ignorance.


20 posted on 05/04/2019 4:58:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bommer

Hubble is the result of a major screw up by Perkin Elmer.
They ground the primary mirror to the wrong figure because they got the millimeter-inch thingie wrong. Only cost a few hundred million dollars.


21 posted on 05/04/2019 4:59:20 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Bommer

You might want to look up the term “focal length”. The moon is too close.

The argument you are using smells suspiciously like flat earth garbage.


31 posted on 05/04/2019 10:17:18 PM PDT by TruBluKentuckian
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