Could they try to serve tea in microgravity – could be a messy if funny experiment!

Hmm… I’m off for a cuppa now …

“While repair of the Hubble as originally planned would provide for the continuing employment of hundreds of astronomers worldwide, the continuation of the USA’s pre-eminence in the field of astronomy and the inspiration regarding science of further generations of American schoolchildren it can be argued that it may indeed provide some positive benefits too. Unfortunately these are not enough to outweigh the destructive effects of scientific materialism.”

But this runs it a very close second:

“We have every hope to emulate our successful approach towards Darwinian evolution (described as “breathtaking” by liberal activist Judge Jones at Dover) in disciplines such as physics, geology and chemistry.”

Thanks Phil, I needed a ROTFLMAO session badly.

“The Hubble Space Telescope is widely recognized as being one of the most successful projects in the NASA’s history. Its cameras aimed at the heavens have, for nearly two decades, provided spectacular views of the wonders of Gods creation. The startling clarity of these images of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and even our planetary neighbors have been, for many, a testament to the ingenuity of NASA’s staff but, unfortunately, an inspiration for many young people to think that materialistic based ‘science’ can provide the ultimate answers to their deepest questions.”

That is the one problem people associate with science, namely that
it can provide answers to all their questions and thus fulfill their
feelings of belonging in the Cosmos.

That is not the purpose of science, despite how some people might
think. Most people are looking for answers akin to religion, such as
is their meaning and purpose to existence? Is there a God who
made me and watches over me? Science does not and cannot
provide those answers. And scientists for the most part are
probably the least likely group of people to provide comfort to
the masses. Carl Sagan tried awfully hard to relate science to
the public, but in the end science would have to become another
branch of religion in order to fulfill people’s need for belonging
and purpose. And that would have been anathema to Sagan
and all other legitimate scientists.

It isn’t bad or wrong that science cannot fill tht emotional void
people have about the Universe. That isn’t what science is about.
Unfortunately certain people over the last few centuries have
touted science as being the cure-all for everything in human
society. It can’t really satisfy our emotional needs any more
than a photograph of a sandwich can actually provide food for
a hungry person. If anything it just makes the person who
hungers long even more for sustenance, and if they get hungry
enough, will start reaching for all sorts of things that are not
proper food, including trying to eat the photo.

This is a tough call, because I personally find religion to be a
human-made construct and thus a fantasy or at the least a
major league distortion of purpose and truth. But science is
not enough to satisfy most people. So what is the best middle
ground for a species that is more aware of the way things are
than ever before, but are still living in the caves and fearing the
night just as the Cro-Magnons did?

Discovery of the teapot will not lead to the imaging of an intelligent designer if it is, in fact, resident on the dark side of the Teapot.

(I never used that acronym before… Started on the title: The Wedgewood Document

1 China Teapot: $2,000,000.00

1 Hubble Servicing Mission: $500,000,000.00

1 Wedgewood Document: Priceless!