NASA Engineers Dispute Hubble Safety Claim

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NASA Engineers Dispute Hubble Safety Claim

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 7, 2004 @05:36AM from the forced-obsolescence dept.

Zeinfeld writes "According to the administration, the Hubble space telescope is going to be allowed to die in the next three years because the shuttle mission required to save it would be too risky. Meanwhile the public plans say shuttle missions to the space station will resume. Papers leaked to the New York Times say hogwash. The article (free subscription required) reports claims that money and politics, not safety are the reason. The public NASA story is clearly nonsense, and if the science from Hubble does not justify a shuttle mission, then it's time to pull the plug on the space station. I suspect that is exactly what will happen after the November election."

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STOP NYTIMES ARTICLES! by sinucus · 2004-02-07 05:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

When are we going to stop publishing NY TIMES articles? I'm tired of having to wait for the hacked google spider link!
1. Re:STOP NYTIMES ARTICLES! by Rick+the+Red · 2004-02-07 05:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I refuse to give personal information to read a newspaper. It doesn't matter that I can give fake information, it's the principle.
  And it's not just the NYT -- other newspapers do it, too, and I refuse to register with them as well.
  And yes, I don't register at my grocery store, either. I did register at Albertsons, because they explicitly have a box to check that says something along the lines of "I don't want to give you my personal information."
  
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2. Re:STOP NYTIMES ARTICLES! by Rick+the+Red · 2004-02-07 05:56 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  That's why "public" anonymous accounts don't work. Some asshole always pees in the pool.
  
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Hey, by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 05:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't forget to pay your cock-smoking tea-baggers. The need money too.
Can you copy the article here? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Would it be a copywrite violation if someone was to quote the whole article text here so that non-subscribers can see it?
1. Re:Can you copy the article here? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 05:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  It would nut bee "copywrite" violation if some one was too quoth the hole artical text hear butt change teh speling allot.
Re:Did anyone expect... by luckylindy · 2004-02-07 05:48 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It is clear to me that after the election the bush admin will have to make 'hard choices' and nasa will be cut back from 15 billion to 5 billion, just enough to do a couple more mars probes for show and tell. Abandon the shuttle, abandon the space station and siphon the money off to black projects and more wars. More wars used to mean more business in the US and that helped the economy but these days even the means of war material production is being outsourced from the US.
Re:Did anyone expect... by Rick+the+Red · 2004-02-07 05:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bush won't kill the shuttle until the Air Force has another way to get soldiers into space. Perhaps they already do. Anyone else seen one of those "Aurora" planes lately?

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Re:Really, did anyone expect anything else? by terraformer · 2004-02-07 05:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

can you post that again just to be sure
I did it because one of the slashbots modded me down and and I did not think it would get modded up, it almost never does when it goes below 0. I hate when moderators mod down comments that are the least bit controversial or that disagree with their own opinions. I almost never mod negative and I never try to censor with my mods.
It is not something I normally do.

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Who's your daddy? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 05:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

He is!
Re: USA starting to hate george bush ? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-07 06:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Iam glad people are starting to wake up when they realise that they personally are the ones losing out from all these funding cuts (and you ain't seen nuthin yet, trillion $ debts ring any bells ?), never mind mankind reaching out for his destiny in space for the goodwill of all men, Bush and his $ bum-chum buddies dont give a shit what things you lose, they are so rich from the scam they pulled on the American public their future family tree will never have to work again ever.

"look he has no clothes"

and we are wasting time
Re:Did anyone expect... by SpaceLifeForm · 2004-02-07 09:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Didn't you get the memo?
Bin Laden will be absolutely, positively found and captured *before* the election. Bet on it.

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Re:Did anyone expect... by segmond · 2004-02-07 09:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

from now till the election, how many more lives are we going to lose in Iraq?

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