states maybe in many countries schoolchildren tend to be fascinated by certain things they're fascinated by dinosaurs 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. 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 and 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 hubble's to 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 helpless contribution to science on the one hand and nasa this 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 humble really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that is been very easy for nasa to. be successful in its 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 you see responsible for perhaps the most full facial no photograph of this

guys and who 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 to 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 moment and nasa is history except for the moon landing. and so it was very worrisome to many people that right after the servicing mission when people had been opposed to the telescope because it wasn't working here's some crazy astronomer 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 a scientific basis but that's my question i mean it's a huge waste 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 and. 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 deep 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 a mistake because 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 and 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 the 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 who fund expensive 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 than usual is 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. i realize that there's

a discovery that goes 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 maybe 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. paul's quads of ours. 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 signs. if it discoveries i

believe the crowning achievement of the 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 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. commission free accreditation free transport charges free. range month free risk free studio type free. the old free blood counseling video for your media projects and a free media dog r t dot com.

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haul points more than china silver with spain completing the podium elsewhere divers found the again equally softly silver in the mounds three metres springboard and qualified fold. the london olympics in the pros says if you're losing only the tight chinese rivals can try telling that to the world championships. translating in china where the country's most popular basketball player has retired from the sport you know i mean officially calling in to korea at a news conference a few hours ago the a time all-star was forced to quit school to optimising two hundred fifty games in the past six years due to repairing leg and foot injuries thirty year old was a household name in his home country before starting his and be a korea with the houston rockets as the top draft pick in two thousand and two and a commissioner david stern says the league will continue collaboration with yeah. i very much want to personally congratulate on his distinguished playing career and

wish him success as he transitions into the next phase of his life importantly we look forward to working with you know in continuing the growth of the game of basketball in china the growth to which he has already contributed so much meanwhile it's been a tough couple of years as for test cricket the long form of the sport experiencing dwindling attendance coupled with increases the us shape all of that sway and since wayne's is on or bob international cricket council believe they have the solution in the form of a new competition named the world championship for some time though we've been working on. called it the world just jumping ship and we've always said that it's not the format that is the issue it's the lack of context so by the two cd's we have a meeting if you aspire to who you are playing towards something at the end. and it's not common knowledge that you hope to get into the city the top four will be

involved in the play off which will be to see photos of the final which would have to have been able to be. an amazing achievement in athletics man while we're all skip a story is also known as bladerunner has qualified for the upcoming world championships in south korea the double amputee needed to clock forty five points went to five seconds in the four hundred meters to make of them but the south african did even better serve crossing that marred by zero point eight hundred seconds easily meaning the twenty four year old could now take part in both the world finals you know best and its ways well summer olympics in london. now let's move on to a sport that's not competitive but nonetheless popular with more than youth bar couture or freerunning has been made famous through the movie industry and is now gaining momentum here in russia as a monk or sort of found out. can you call it a sport if your performance is not rated well these three runners don't care what

you call their art form. also known as tracers are growing in number across europe and the discipline is now making headway in russia as well but you can see the development in the guys you can. be experiencing the training and the way that 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. this being his third visit to moscow he's a rival always thirds into a great spectacle put on by his russian associates and old portie promoting not only a healthy lifestyle but also raising doubts about the very laws of physics. it's very important to be able to have complete control over your body could also be very practical to you like when you fly in from bad guys or something if i like

what i see here who knows i might join them. russia's climate doesn't allow for a year round. but that's exactly the or its philosophy to overcome an obstacle unsurmountable in everyday life. understand that russians don't have many opportunities to practice park or especially in winter when it's cold and therefore thing is covered with snow despite i was impressed with their technique and believe it has a future here. the global community truly has no boundaries with the world's youth united under similar slogans and that's to be healthy in body and spirit through the payment of flexibility reflex coordination and most importantly self discipline . and finally to one of the most bizarre football. spectacles of late just take a look now at how the united arab emirates school that been the ultimate goal in a seven to victory over lebanon in an international friendly the elbow wanna listen

quite a surprise but when you see the most innovative spock it's started you however drew criticism from his own team manager is my us she'd go down each part of the unimpressed by the cake calling it quote disrespectful amazingly the twenty year old midfielder is now looking at a fine or even suspension meanwhile lebanon coach emil ruth stone played down the incident and mixing it gone very guarded as an insult. and that was a school for the hour alice will bring you the main news right after the weather update stay with our team. culture is that so much excitement and we should call on a contemplative debt deadline as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms would appear to be more mom politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling. simplicial disciplinary punishment.

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journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy coles an actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting the blogosphere into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't the sun horror story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off eerily similar tragedies of sheen who are in david kelly this madness toward the end david kelly shawn who are that's what i'm thinking something's not trying dr kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cause doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence kelly's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three.