source for fifty years now if you would go to a typical classroom in the united states and look at posters on the wall you would see pictures of dinosaurs for the first time last year pictures from hubble space telescope occurred more often than dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that is quite an accomplished so thank you children for funding to help both well in fact that's true but there we've had servicing missions to the hubble . five of them actually and the last one there was a lot of questioning because the economy was having problems whether or not it should go ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of hubble in fact it was the public the american public that insisted that whole boasted be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life time of

all bore extended could you validate help us contribution to science on the one hand and nicest p.r. on the other hand what impact has it had there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing hubble but in fact i don't think that's really the key to success as we all know you can try to publicize something that doesn't really have much value and you don't succeed i think hubble really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that is been very easy for masses to . be successful and it's p.r. of the telescope i just mentioned that we're going to speak to the apollo eight crew members and everyone knows that they brought back the shot of the earth right now as you see responsible for perhaps the most sensational photograph of the skies and what really got. it from point a couple at nothing how much of a gamble was it

a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker in my life when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night i took it out to see how far i could see. fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates hubble space telescope it seemed to me one should do the same thing scientifically look to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been some studies scientific studies done before the launch of hubble trying to predict the important scientific problems that it would help solve and imaging distant galaxies was not one of them and there

were valid reasons why many astronomers thought that hubble would do many great things but it probably would not make much of a contribution in studying distant galaxies i question that. and i thought it was sufficiently important that i was willing to take a recess and point hubble at. what i called an undistinguished spot in the sky for ten full days to see what it could see. some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we did this just after hubble had been repaired you know for the first three years of its existence there was a flaw in the mirrors that needed to be corrected and so the american public was very upset about that hubble space telescope at the time of its launch was the most expensive scientific project in history. two and one half billion u.s.

dollars very expensive and it was not working for three years the astronauts repaired it famous servicing mission very successful perhaps the greatest and moment in nasa is history except for the moon landing. and so it was very worrisome to many people that right after the service a misnomer when people had been opposed to the telescope because it wasn't working and here's some crazy a strong. and there was going to try to see if he could image distant galaxies and they were afraid that i would get no results and if that were true then the public would really be opposed to the telescope but i thought it was worth the scientific risk and fortunately i had a very good team of young scientists helping me and of course it didn't work out so there's a story here it is important to scientific risk but that's my question i mean it's

a huge race from what you've described a huge amount of money that could have been so many const more than prose what trophy is that intuition or is it is it reason partly no it was that's a good question actually it was intuition. that's. i in my science i do tend to rely on my intuition probably too much actually because i can point to times in my scientific career when i had a hunch we call it you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive in the case that. in the case of the field it was productive you know it it's true in life that if you're going to make really interesting discoveries something that is unexpected you do need to be a risk taker and i guess i like to go for the big discovery and so i'm

willing to take a risk even though the majority of the time perhaps you come up with nothing very interesting so it's a style that is a personal style that scientists have some people are not such risk takers they can be very successful i happen to be a risk taker. i've certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it now it was in ninety five when you revolutionized the visuals of the science i mean for us for ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and a science and you took a chance you took a risk what about scientists in space researchers now kept can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tie in it's becoming more difficult when funding is in. there is greater pressure to come up with a result and of course it's very it's much easier to come up with a result when you don't take a risk when you're doing something where you already know it's likely to give you a positive result but of course

a great discoveries are those in which you're completely unexpected and therefore you cannot anticipate and i believe for the progress of science it is essential that there be risk takers and i think it's important for the people in the political world to fund. it's of scientific projects to realize that it is important for the march of science for the march of human knowledge that a certain amount of risk taking be undertaken just to make sure one more time for you this odyssey of the humble what's more important the facts or the visuals that that that that's mind boggling for us. the facts the facts yes so what's more important is it more important for you to see a beautiful picture and we can say that that's art and that's important or is it more important for you to realize that there's a discovery that shows you something about the origins of life even if that image is not pretty i would say it is the increased understanding of the universe that

comes even from an image that is not very pretty to me that has much more of value then something that is beautiful although that of course does have value itself but you ask me as a taxpayer i think. that depends upon your values do you value art and depicting something that is beautiful more than fundamental understanding you also said that we're now experiencing that golden age of astronomy you still of that opinion lately you are even with budget cuts yeah because this extends over a period of some years we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based

observatories in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy about paul's ares quads r's. the existence of planets around other stars in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy but what do you think how both crowning achievement will be i actually think it is produced many interesting scientific discoveries i believe the crowning achievement of hubble space telescope will be the fact that it

made the public aware of the universe and the fact that we can understand it and the fact that humans are a part of the universe and evolved from it i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. please. please. just say.

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you know what she lives for it's on our team here is what's coming up here of why one win away from securing the fifteenth copa america title off today and. to reach the final. stage when number two and this is to the for on spot local favorite almost sixty the yellow jersey he's been wearing for eight consecutive stages now. and discover what caused the united arab emirates play and to be substituted immediately after scoring a goal and labeled disrespectful by team manager. for a year of why have booked a place in the final of the copa america following a two nil victory over piru in the first semi all these years tournaments you know why didn't they did throughout the first off but couldn't come to any chances them it wasn't until early in the second when we finally broke the deadlock luis suarez opened in the fifty five minute reaching out to the deflection and firing. five

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in the company. of school girls and no one else that's very well disciplined so why wouldn't we try and make it fun. in the is the test transfer saga same's debate over at least for a while after corinthians with do that due to lack of time to have this same here in the copa america quarter final last week where he is crucial to shop was stopped by a white paper printed said earlier today they won't be able to sign the twenty seven year old until the transfer window closes on wednesday evening they did however point out they still want the strike and could revive the deal in january. staying with the barcelona have said they're willing to fight to the end fabregas also already rejecting an offer in excess of forty million dollars for the spanish international boss a boss pep guardiola sales the cash is there for the long sought after midfielder. that is if the interest of f.c.

barcelona is known by the press and by arsenal there's money in the safe set aside for this goal if we can make him sign we will do it if not the money will be kept for someone else but we will fight to get sestak until the end because we understand that this will make us a better team. unix lineup will look significantly different next season with the bundesliga powerhouse signing a whole host of new players jerome bought saying the most high profile bidding farewell to the english premier league to had home to his native germany that's when it's old looking forwards to joining up with fellow national team. in the twenty town league champions helping bolting as the missing link as they attempt to reclaim the crown the last of borrowed set last year but team chemistry should have been issue balta in just one of hospitals a new player to buy and read. now in his latest role the who took full advantage from the second stay coming out in full strength at the ensuing stage

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losing only two chinese rivals. last appearance at the world championships. and as well take a look at how the overall standings look up to four days of competition still and steam china has lead that. though in the best position to challenge the hosts leave while great britain are in fad with the only gold medal won by carry on pain in the women's open water sand kilometer race a few days ago. as saying in china where the country's most popular basketball player has retired from the sport yellow mane officially calling it to korea at a news conference a few hours ago the eight time and being all staal was forced to quit school to optimising two hundred fifty games in the past six years due to a caring leg and for the danger is the thirty year old was a household name in his home country before starting his and being korea with the houston rockets as the told draft back in two thousand and two the league's tallest

player has spent eight seasons in america becoming one of the best known chinese athletes. now it's been a tough couple of years for test cricket the long form of the sport experiencing doing attendance coupled with having crazed viewership all this way. but the international cricket council believe they have a solution in the form of a new competition named the world to ask championship for some time though we've been working on. called it the world just championship we've always said that it's not the format that is the issue it's the lack of context so it. would have a meeting if you were spotting who you were playing towards something at the end. and it's not common knowledge that we hope for that in. the top four will be involved in the play off which will be to see photos of the final which would have to be. now an amazing achievement in athletics where all scope the story is also

known as bladerunner has qualified for the upcoming world championships in south korea the double amputee needed to quote forty five point five seconds in the four hundred meters to make it that the south african did even better than point eighteen seconds in. many of the twenty four year old could now take part in both the world finals in the oldest athletes when his well summer olympics in london. and now let's move on to a sport that's not competitive but nonetheless popular with the malden new park who are all free running has been made famous through the movie industry and is now gaining momentum here in russia and one course there if reports. can you call it a sport if your performance is not rated well these three runners don't care what you call there are. practitioners also known as tracers are growing in number across europe and the discipline is now making headway in russia as well you can see the development in the guys you can see that you know the experience in their

training and the way they move the strength and that sort of thing you can you can visit you know we see that wherever we go if we've been to somewhere and then visited again a few years later we do see a difference in the strength and the ability and confidence of the practitioners normally. john edwards regularly travels the world giving seminars and presentations on for fear of this being his third visit to moscow he's a rival always turns into a great spectacle put on by his russian associates and. already promoting not only a healthy lifestyle but also raising doubts about the very laws of physics. very important to be able to have complete control over your body could also be very practical like when you fly in from bad guys or something if i like what i see here who knows i might join the. russians climb a dozen for a year round. but that. exactly that was the lofty to overcome an obstacle on three

mountable in everyday life. six had to physically abuse. many opportunities to practice parkway especially in winter when it's cold and they think is covered in snow despite i was impressed with their technique and believe it has a future here. the global community truly has no bearing varies with the world's youth united under similar slogans and that's to be healthy in body and spirit through that means of flexibility reflex coordination and most importantly the. remark calls for an r.c. school. and finally to one of the most bizarre football spectacles of late take a look now at how the united arab emirates school that but ultimately goal in a seven two victory over lebanon and an international friendly. watching quite a surprise for their posing goalkeeper producing us in the face of all spot takes the strategy however drew criticism from his own team manager as my or i should have been coach. on impressed by the kick calling it quote disrespectful amazingly

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