Mr. Whipple disappeared from American television decades ago. Folks remember him as the guy who told shoppers, “please don’t squeeze the Charmin.” Have you ever stared at your ceiling on a sleepless night and wondered what happened to Mr. Whipple? Me neither. However, I did happen to stumble upon his name in an article about NASA.
It seems Mr. Whipple has been masquerading as manager for the Hubble Telescope.  This probably explains why it hasn’t worked all that well. For the uninitiated, the Hubble Telescope is the NASA version of Windows …

The brilliant musician and philosopher David St. Hubbins once said, “Well, I don’t really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It’s like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how – what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what’s stopping it, and what’s behind what’s stopping it? So, what’s the end, you know, is …