terrestrial telescopes fall short of HST's resolution by a factor of 10 or more.And that is reason enough.
KevinDavis: Well if they fix the Hubble to take pictures of other planets outside of this solar system yes.. If not no...Great, now you've turned this into a topic fit for...
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Sneaking it in, again, I see!
I used to hang around with a bunch of astronomy geeks half of which were from the Johnson Space Center...In fact, I have one of the rare (and to me desirable) Johnson Space Center Astronomy Society ball caps.
One of the guys in the club was a major person involved in the first Hubble repair mission (not an astronaut, one of the administrators for the project)...
Until we have another telescope like the Hubble with its resolution up there, we need it. IMHO, although it might just be nostagia...