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Clock Ticking for Hubble
DoraLives writes "Ok then, what are we going to do with Hubble? Eventually, it MUST come down. The New York Times has a piece that addresses this less than pleasant (at least for the astronomical community) subject. Additionally "The decision about what happens then has been complicated by the breakup of the Columbia." Read all about it."
Why not just shove it into a bit higher orbit?
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Of course, Taco Bell will put a big floating bullseye in the ocean and if some titanium part of hubble hits it everyone in the US wins a Taco!
Wooo Hoooo!
Well, Columbia wasn't the only Space Shuttle you Yanks have, was it?!?!
No way! Then you run the risk of Paramount taking William Shatner out of drydock.
And they'll shoot more "extra" footage that is really really really dull.
NASA has long planned to end Hubble's spectacular run and bring it down in 2010 to make way in the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2011.
Theres a gap there in time where we wont have a telescope up there. this will be the end of the world, as we wont be able to see the asteroid comming at earth in time to send our best deep crust drillers to drop a nuke in it and split it up!
Yeah! We could auction it off on Ebay!
One man's pink plane is another man's blue plane.
"What the hell is that thing?"
"It appears to be the mothership."
"Then what did we just blow up?"
"The Hubble Telescope."
"You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is...never try. Heh!" -Homer
It's going to need a bit of polishing, a space telescope isn't exactly suited for that kind of rough re-entry.
The moon race isn't the only example, SSI, public education, medicade/medicare are all drastic and sorry failures.
Yeah, not like the shining examples of Amtrak, Worldcom, and Enron.
Are you aware that this affiliate link to NY times
features the G.N.A.A?
I would like to see the surprise of NY times sysadmins when they check their affiliate statistics.
Trolling now makes it into hyperlinks. I hereby dub this new phenomenon "Hypertrolling".
Cheez.
--- Eat my sig.
Let me know the Buy-It-Now price, and I'll cut you a check right now.
You don't even need to deliver it - it's fine where it is.
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
I was always fond of this hubble image: Hubble Heritage Project: Keyhole Nebula
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Maybe it's time for the US to test some of their cool new weaponry. They must have SOMETHING neat that was designed to take out high altitude stuff. What better chance to prove it's effectiveness? I mean, the Hubble has to come down anyway, so why not give us all a show?
They need to just point the Hubble back to earth and create the worlds best voyeur porn site. They could fund all their other missions with that money.
Why not rename it the Hubbard Space Telescope? Then you can get Hollywood Scientology types to pay big bucks to keep it in the air.
`which fortune`
you will see almost an opposite coorlation.
Coorlation?
Is that, like, the relationship between how much beer I've drank and um, you know, like how bad my english on Slashdot becomes?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Who said its in trouble, the mighty hubble, as I scratch my stubble, blowing a bubble, am I seeing double?... he,he...
I'm not sure if you realize it, but that web site (goatse.cx) doesn't have any pictures pertaining to bestiality. It just seems to be a picture of some guy stretching his asshole.
Thought you might like to know
-- A guy that likes sex with goats.
Well, the NYT thinks I'm a 70 year old woman, living in Afghanistan, who is the CE0 of a company, and that I make less than $US20000/year.
Somehow I don't think that's helping their demographic DB one bit.
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
If I win the Ebay bidding, do I get to point it down instead of up? Seems there may be heavenly bodies in both directions worth looking at.
I ground my own mirror and made an amazing discovery.
The Moon is actually football-shaped, and slightly blurred at the ends!
Those fools in the mainstream science community just refuse to believe me though.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?