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Related: About this forumNASA threatens to "stop following" the Hubble Space Telescope...
...according to The Borowitz Report - Hubble Telescope Sends Back Annoying Stream of Selfies:
HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)NASAs Hubble Space Telescope, whose mission is to capture images that help scientists better understand the universe, has instead spent much of the past several weeks transmitting an annoying series of self-portraits, NASA scientists confirmed today.
NASA officials were alarmed in mid-November, when, ignoring their orders, the Hubble extended a long robotic arm in order to get a good vantage point on itself and began snapping thousands of blurry, low-resolution photos.
Despite NASAs repeated instructions to the Hubble to look for evidence of water on distant planets, the telescope continued to produce more and more self-portraits, posting them to its Instagram and Twitter accounts along with the hashtag #pimpin.
Harland Dorrinson, operations manager at the Johnson Space Center, said that NASA had monitored the images sent back by the Hubble since 1990, but that if it persists in sending back nothing but self-portraits, NASA would probably stop following it.
The Hubble might think it looks good in these pictures, but theyre of no interest to anyone but the Hubble itself, he said.
NASA officials were alarmed in mid-November, when, ignoring their orders, the Hubble extended a long robotic arm in order to get a good vantage point on itself and began snapping thousands of blurry, low-resolution photos.
Despite NASAs repeated instructions to the Hubble to look for evidence of water on distant planets, the telescope continued to produce more and more self-portraits, posting them to its Instagram and Twitter accounts along with the hashtag #pimpin.
Harland Dorrinson, operations manager at the Johnson Space Center, said that NASA had monitored the images sent back by the Hubble since 1990, but that if it persists in sending back nothing but self-portraits, NASA would probably stop following it.
The Hubble might think it looks good in these pictures, but theyre of no interest to anyone but the Hubble itself, he said.
A sample Hubble selfie is available at the link.
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NASA threatens to "stop following" the Hubble Space Telescope... (Original Post)
DreamGypsy
Dec 2013
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JesterCS
(1,827 posts)1. i Swear Dreamgypsy.....
you had me worried for a minute.... lol
haikugal
(6,476 posts)2. Possible hacking??
It's bizarre...
longship
(40,416 posts)3. It's bizarre because it's Borowitz.
Satire, in other words.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)4. I agree with NASA...
that comment, "look at my big lens!" is simply not acceptable!
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)5. i wish people would stop posting this crap as an actual news story
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)6. Shouldn't that be "unfriend" ? nt