119: They Shook On It
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The significance of that shake was beyond this world.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:38.0 | Not long after its historic launch in 1990, |
| 0:41.0 | the Hubble Space Telescope began sending back some much-anticipated photos of the cosmos. |
| 0:46.0 | Astronomers were giddy with anticipation. |
| 0:49.0 | They believed a telescope this powerful could look backwards in time. |
| 0:53.0 | Maybe as far back as the big bang itself. |
| 0:56.0 | Unfortunately, the photos that came back were blurry, |
| 1:00.0 | undeniably, inconceivably, and unforgivably blurry. |
| 1:04.0 | NASA was humiliated. |
| 1:06.0 | Congress was furious, and astronomers were deeply disappointed. |
| 1:10.0 | The Hubble had cost taxpayers $1.5 billion. |
| 1:14.0 | And now, thanks to a mirror that had been improperly ground |
| 1:18.0 | during the manufacturing process, |
| 1:20.0 | the most expensive telescope ever made was little more than a piece of junk. |
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