and that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you. in the united 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 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 help those 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 trouble or extended would 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 they have. eight

crew members and everyone is that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you see responsible for perhaps the most sensational 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 helpful 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 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 in nasa 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. and then. 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 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 can can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tie up. 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 to 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 on a sea 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 pick. 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 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 lately you aren't even with the 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 enabled 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 are. 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 hubble of crowning achievement will . 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 they fall from that i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. look. wealthy british scientists. sometimes. the markets say find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause the reports on

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half a dozen years injury to thirty year olds was a household name in his home country before starting his career stateside with the houston rockets the top draft pick in two thousand and two n.b.a. commissioner david stern praising the thirty year old i'm stating that ming dynasty isn't finished yet. 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 oh in continuing the growth of the game of basketball in china a growth to which he has already contributed so much now there's been a quite incredible achievement in athletics with oscar pistorius sole so known as blade runner qualifying for the upcoming world championships inside korea they double the beauty who's got another name known as the fox this mom on no legs

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a huge shareholding and watersports top. the excitement rotches up a notch in the cricket world this week the top two ranked countries in the test for my present india and england going head to head up the words in thursday's opener this year's world cup man of the tournaments believes it's going to be as tight on the crease as it is on paper. i think it's going to be really exciting season definitely they've got really good bowlers and then to some broad. resonance so it's going to be it's going to be a tough fight i think the team who plays well. is right under pressure and i think they're more than physical toughness is going to be mental toughness was mentally tough is going to win it nash i'd be quite a clash now let's finish with a hop skip and jump or actions to affect parker or free running which initially was made famous through the film industry is now gaining more and more momentum in

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very welcome to you this is. from the phone hacking scandal in britain continues to unfold on a daily basis storm clouds are gathering over prime minister david cameron his close connections to the embattled rupert murdoch's media empire has seen him facing some difficult questions in parliament today nor emmet has moved from london . cameron is becoming more and more deeply implicated in this scandal as time goes on and in fact it's been revealed that his chief of dogs allegedly scotland yard's not to brief the prime minister on the phone hacking investigation people are asking whether that was willful ignorance and they're also saying that it could be extremely serious for the prime minister if it turns out that that was the wrong

thing to do let's say what loka harry cole has to say about his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating to cover up a brother connections because of. the phone hacking making sure that the prime minister leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers i mean isn't just a lot of heads in the sun i bet it is legal for a prime minister i'm not usually a betting woman but i have looked at a couple of betting shops in the offering on camera and being the next minister to leave office at the beginning of the week the odds were one hundred to one and now they've dropped in some places to as low as forty one people also taking advantage of this situation of course and miliband the deal position has consistently stopped short of calling for the prime minister to resign and of course we've seen the commissioner of the metropolitan police to pull stevenson on his resignation saying essentially that he didn't see why he had to step down by hiring this new.