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NASA Engineers Dispute Hubble Safety Claim
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."
yes, that is so. I misread his comment and was too quick to reply.
voters chose Gore. he won the popular vote. Gore would also have won the vote in Florida (and thus the presidency) had Jeb Bush not disqualified several tens of thousands of legal registered voters (the vast majority of them democrats) because their names happened to resemble those of convicted felons from other states.
it's certainly true that we can't expect the government to spend more money while collecting less taxes. but let's not pretend that the voters chose the government currently occupying the White House. because they didn't. (and let's not pretend either that the huge deficit that the Bush administration has built up is because of the tax cut. some rather expensive foreign adventures had something to do with it also)
(and yes, this is off topic. but it's correcting misinformation from another off topic post. if you mod this post down you should mod the one it's referring to down also.)
After Challenger and Columbia, your words are so right and sickeningly precient about the problems that arose.