Refrigerator art work?!
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks for proving beyond any doubt that nothing you say should ever be paid any attention to by anybody. Changing our estimate of the age of the universe, changing the theories on the expansion of the universe, completely rewriting our concept of black holes, proto-planetary disks, extra solar planets, that’s just the partial list of what we’ve learned from Hubble’s pictures. Only the stupidest person in the history of the world would call that refrigerator art. No more of your posts will be read by me, you’re a complete waste of time and bits. Good bye, good luck, hope you learn to tie your own shoes some day.
So we know for certain what the age of the universe is? And Hubble provided MOST of the information that "rewrote" "our concept of black holes"? That's important why?
Adaptive optics and other earth based technologies can do most of what Hubble can do. A space based telescope is left to a few advantages in some bands of the spectrum. But those space spaced telescopes could be cheaper or smaller than Hubble to do refrigerator-art science things like look for exo-planets.
As a prior poster pointed out we'd have many of Hubble type space observatory platforms for the cost of one Shuttle.