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Hubble Upgraded; NASA's Future Not So Bright
jokrswild writes: "After 5 space walks and 172 million dollars, Hubble has been successfully redeployed. Hopefully it will be able to amaze us yet again in its abilities to capture the unimaginable." And Captn Pepe writes: "Space.com has a couple of articles regarding what the Congressional Research Service and what NASA's new chief administrator have to say about the space agency's future plans and prospects. The short version is, don't hold your breath for a Mars mission."
They must really be cutting back if they're recommending people holding their breath on the Mars mission.
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There was a story floating around recently about a member of NSYNC paying to go into space as a 'entertainment trip' sort of thing. This could be used to pay for a mission to Mars without tax money. Many people, myself included, would be willing to kick in money to send the entire band of NSYNC into space, with the stipulation that they do not return.
Just send the starving kids to Mars. That way, they technically wouldn't be a problem on OUR planet. :)
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Heh. What if Congress and your 1040 were like the Reality TV Show Big Brother? Each year at the bottom of each 1040 the audience could vote out one member of Congress.
It would take a small percentage of the NASA budget to get food to all these starving people. So the money being spent on "pointless" things isn't the problem.
Isn't the real problem here Sally Struthers eating all the twinkies that are destined for Northern Africa or (insert starving nation here)? I never trust a fat person who claims to represent starving people. We all know who's getting the food in THIS case.
Maybe just to make it interesting for the rest of us, send up about 50 camera's as well and a limited supply of oxygen and they have to fight for the right to be the last person breathing up there... and possibly get a free ride home...
That way, everyone left back here gets the best of all worlds...
Mars gets a manned mission,
We stop the fight against terrorism,
AND *shudder* for the reality tv freaks out there, they get the ultimate reality show of all time...
Ohhh... and as a side benefit, we also get rid of all those useless politicians who are just screwing up everything for everyone else...
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