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Originally posted by analog
I'm curious how much money we're putting into this sort of thing and exactly what great good it's doing to help us. Homeless, hungry, needy families? Fuck that, we've got a black hole we can't see and has nothing to do with us over 12 billion light years away!
*throws cash around into the wind*
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I imagine that the astronomers simply used an already-built satellite (probably Hubble since our atmosphere makes Earth-based telescopes exponentionally less-powerful than satellite-scopes in orbit) to find out this information. Not that much money was used. Either way, astronomy is a very, very important science.
Awesome article -- I took Astronomy 1 and 2 at college the past year and can say that it's *easily* the most interesting classes I've had (and probably ever will have).
-Lasereth