Last June, I posted about the “cosmic event” that decommissioned the main camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope (See “Hubble Memory Erased by Aliens”). Fortunately, super-intelligent humans managed to fix it from Earth two weeks later. (Take that alien scum!) Now another extraterrestrial terrorist attack has occurred: two more cameras have gone offline. And this time they may never be repaired. How could we let this happen? Don’t we realize the aliens will think they’ve won? Even if Hubble doesn’t get fixed, it looks like we’re (probably) sending some astronauts up there in 2008 to make a show of it. There is still hope. If the aliens think that sabotaging the Hubble will do any serious damage to humanity, then maybe they’ll be stupid enough to think we’re actually fixing it.

(Surely I jest. Of course the information gathered by the Hubble could have huge implications for humanity. But have we seen them yet? Seriously, feel free to comment. Even I am not completely sure whether I’m pro- or anti-Hubble right now…)