Yes, the title was Hubble conspiracy questions. I was involved in a discussion yesterday afternoon, that I thought you all here could help me solve, having been so useful in the past. (That's your cue to thin "He lies us, he really lies us. Just so you now.)

(Damnit, I'm on the computer without a ' ' ey. You now, the letter after j? Sorry...)

So, the question is, was the Hubble the first satellite of that design in orbit, or did the military secretly (well, sort of secretly apparently) put up an earlier Hubble and use it to spy on people?

I thought this sounded silly, because why would you tae a telescope used for pointing into the middle of nowhere (which doesn't tae heap big good pictures of the surface of the Earth, being as its too bright) and use it for pointing at the surface of the Earth, where it doesn't... Yeah, you get the point.

Now, this guy insists that he read about this somehwere, but I couldn't find a lin. Did I not google long enough? I said that it would mae way more sense to use a spy satellite designed specifically for this type of thing, but he says that the Hubble wors if you "turn down the volume" on the light intae. My impression is that this would be lie wearing night vision goggles at noon and just squinting.

So, friends, what is the Straight Do... er... the Good Astronomy on this matter? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Ben Benoy