Triana Mothballed

jessemckinney writes "Apparently, the US congress of last year cut the funding of this great satellite project after it was finished. It will now take millions of dollars (us) to refuel and recalibrate the instruments. Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?"

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Sad, but mothball it for the greater good

[Bobo the Space Chimp]

> "The idea that the vice president had was
> philosophical. He wanted schoolchildren to look at
> our planet and appreciate our environment," said
> Francisco P. J. Valero, the mission's principal
> scientist.

It should never been allowed to be a vehicle for a vice president's promotion. His wholescale destruction of the economy in order to gain a few brownie vote points with environmentalists wouldn't hurt the Nasa scientists, who are fed cash taken by threat of jail from the general population anyway.

Hemos, this is not a great satellite idea...

[Flounder]

I thought this idea by Al Gore was bad when he first proposed it. I never even thought they'd actually build it.

This is a feel good enviroweenie type of project. It's a frigging NASA-built webcam! We need to spend our money on more important projects, like sending Lego robots to Mars, and huge expensive lasers in orbit. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Spend the NASA budget where it's use will better serve the advancement of science and knowledge. Raise the budget for the ISS. More Mars exploration missions. Christ, let's send a mission to the Moon to verify the existence of subsurface ice.

Republicans and Space

[The Ape With No Name]

Of course, this mothballing comes at the behest of the same political party (of the US of A) that thinks those crack US rocket scientists should be a-cipherin' on how to make a bullet hit a bullet everytime. In this case, we really could have Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clowns. The Triana project is no more asinine than protecting a country (that probably could use a mass death event to clean up all the stupid people) with a cockamamie missile shield that the developers have to cheat to make work. I would rather live in a country that comes up with a kooky but probably beneficial project like Triana than one than thinks all you commie European fags are trying to invade with your little cars and techno music. Get out, you say? I have.