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A Way to Save Hubble?

Posted by timothy on from the whose-money-is-the-question dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The maintenance flight to give the Hubble Space Telescope a few more years has been cancelled, even though everyone agrees that HST does good work. But this article offers a way to save the space telescope, and to give those who think the space program should be privatized a way to prove they can do it."

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  1. If they don't want it... by kinnell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why don't they just sell it on e-bay?

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    If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
    1. Re:If they don't want it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or maybe they can save some money by outsourcing it to India !! I can see the News-item "HST flight launched using the rope trick" .

    2. Re:If they don't want it... by jo42 · · Score: 2, Funny


      I bid 1,000,000 quatloos!