Happy 15th Birthday Hubble!

Today is the 15th anniversary of the day they placed the best thing to happen to astronomy since man 1st gazed at the stars: The Hubble Space Telescope. Austinist gives a hearty hazzah to man's finest attempt to understand the very fabric of our universe and the cause of its inception. Wired Magazine has written an excellent article online describing many of Hubble's finest accomplisments.

With all of our modern problems, such as multi-stage, multi-nation colonial reorganization, the U.S. federal government can't be bothered to fund unproven sciences, like astronomy and physics, so the Hubble will eventually run out of juice and plummet to the earth, somewhere around 2007-2008. Why would the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF ASTONOMICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY need to be preserved, or at the very least be brought back home to keep as a marker of human achievement? Beats Austinist.

But if you do care, why not write George W. or his boss Richard and voice your opposition to SHEER INSANITY.

Let's try to keep Hubble around at least until it can drink legally.