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."

Comments

Manned space travel is pointless.

[glrotate]

Ok, so kids are staving to death as we speak on this planet, and some people want to spends billions of dollars to conduct a gigantic geology experiment on Mars.

No thanks

Re:Manned space travel is pointless.

[Anonymous Coward]

This would never would have had happened if GORE went to office.

Re:Manned space travel is pointless.

[Com2Kid]

Wouldn't work, rememember people are stupid.

Washington state residents have voted TWICE in a row now to cut taxs seriously.

Ah oh yes one of our major bridges is now about ready to fall down and people are scrambling trying to find funding for it, enviromental production is being cut to shreads, education is being to shreads, and all in all the state as a whole is assfucked.

All because the majority of Fucktards out there thoguht that voting themselves lower taxs would "force politicians to cut back on government waste".

Bullshit the politicians just took the easiest route and cut back on funding for critical needs rather then actualy do anything more efficently.

If you want to change ANYTHING you HAVE TOO, and I repeat, YOU HAVE TO MICRO-MANAGE EVERYTHING THAT THE ROTTEN LITTLE BASTARDS(the politicians) DO.

Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy their copier paper from that supplier because that supplier is WAAAAY overcharging them and has been doing so for the last 20 some odd years.

Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy all of their number two pencils from Office Depot because a Pencil does not have to be name brand to write.

Be specific.

Oh, and forget about pro-choice, how about "manditory sterilization after the first kid."

Sounds good to me. School class sizes are WAAAAY to high.

Oh, and be more EFFICENT with Military R&D spending, we already spend royal ASSLOADS of money on Military R&D, it is just that a lot of that money is spent on 'pet projects' that were proven undoable quite a few years ago.

Of course some aeronautical company is making buttloads of money off of the continued research (or parts used in the research at least) of whatever project is being researched so thus the resarch dothst continue.

Suckly really really sucky.

And NASA's purpose is...?

[Moderation abuser]

Seriously. Privatise it. A massive government monopoly on space is a waste of tax payers money and is stiffling private enterprise.

With shrinking budgets NASA is just an albatross round the neck of space travel.

Hubble Produces No Science

[PhysicsGenius]

I love science. I love big science. But science is more than pretty pictures. It is a process of creating, testing and destroying hypotheses to push our knowledge to the edge of the envelope.

The Hubble telescope does none of these things. Of course, neither does an electron microscope or a hammer--because they are merely tools. But when wielded by a trained, creative and insightful scientist they can help produce startling new theories that make our life better.

But the Hubble telescope isn't in the hands of trained, creative and insightful scientists. It is in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians who dole out a minute here and a minute there on whatever pet projects they happen to favor. When Scientist A creates a theory based on an observation made with Hubble, these chairwarmers refuse to let Scientist B use the 'scope to attempt demolish that theory for fear it will make Hubble look bad.

We obviously can't afford to make enough for everyone, so the only solution is to let no one have it. Decommission the Hubble!