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CmdrTaco
on from the no-shocker-here dept.
falconed writes "From the BBC, 'Nasa has given a final "no" to requests for it to change its mind and grant a reprieve to the Hubble Space Telescope.' Not much new info here; canceling the program due to safety issues. This hasbeen discussedonSlashdotbefore."
I still don't understand why NASA will be flying to the space station, but will not service Hubble which has done, and has the potential to do hundreds of times more science than the space station ever will. Besides, the ISS is currently serviceable as it is, with a bit more money even 3 people could be sent up and serviced with more soyuz aircraft.
but instead we have a prematurely scrapped Hubble, a disfunctional ISS that doesn't do anything anyway, and NASA with promises to fly to mars and build a "space plane" that is currently in pre-planning stage.
-- Hostes alienigieni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
Make up thier damn minds please
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Phoenix
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I swear, the Hubble repair mission is up and down more times than a pair of kangaroos in the mating season.
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When you have as much money as NASA
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reverendG
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It's ok to let a few billion burn in.
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Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
Didn't the Christian-Right zealots not want Hubble
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Bob+Bitchen
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up there at all? I have a vague memory of the Christian zealots pronouncing the Hubble as bad and that it shouldn't be launched. Something to do with witnessing creation and how mankind should not tamper with God's work. And now here we are with Bush and his right-wing zealots taking it down just when it's at its prime. This may sound crazy but consider what the current administration has done so far. Ashcroft probably asked to have the Hubble taken down as a favor to his Christian zealot pals. More proof that the Republicans are scared that Bush is done. He's not getting 4 more years so get your favors in now.
I can't help but think that maybe it's because we have a fundamentalist Christian in the Whitehouse. Hubble has shown the universe to be several billion years older than many fundamentalists like to believe
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. I believe the creation story to be allegorical.
Design objectives for Hubble 2
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emil
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I don't know beans about astronomy, but:
Hubble should have been designed not to require servicing missions (never again should we risk lives to fix broken optics)
We should have launched two of them
The optics should have been tested more thoroughly (this English-Metric thing is getting old)
We should have a roadmap of Hubble 3, 4, 5. These should be launched every 5-7 years, with the most cost-effective technologies
We did with Hubble what we did with the Shuttle: we stuck with a bad design for far too long.
Never develop a sentimental attachment to technology.
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but instead we have a prematurely scrapped Hubble, a disfunctional ISS that doesn't do anything anyway, and NASA with promises to fly to mars and build a "space plane" that is currently in pre-planning stage.
Hostes alienigieni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
I swear, the Hubble repair mission is up and down more times than a pair of kangaroos in the mating season.
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
It's ok to let a few billion burn in.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
up there at all? I have a vague memory of the Christian zealots pronouncing the Hubble as bad and that it shouldn't be launched. Something to do with witnessing creation and how mankind should not tamper with God's work. And now here we are with Bush and his right-wing zealots taking it down just when it's at its prime. This may sound crazy but consider what the current administration has done so far. Ashcroft probably asked to have the Hubble taken down as a favor to his Christian zealot pals.
More proof that the Republicans are scared that Bush is done. He's not getting 4 more years so get your favors in now.
http://tinyurl.com/3t236
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. I believe the creation story to be allegorical.
I don't know beans about astronomy, but:
We did with Hubble what we did with the Shuttle: we stuck with a bad design for far too long.
Never develop a sentimental attachment to technology.