O'Keefe Under Fire for Hubble, ISS Decisions

chuckpeters writes "The battle over saving Hubble is just starting to heat up! The House Science Committee Democrats released their views and estimates report. Recommendation number two was that until Congress gets better information on the long term costs of Bush's Moon/Mars initiative, NASA's 2005 funding requests should go to existing programs. The House Science Committee has also decided that they want to hear from outside experts on Bush's space initiative. Just as Hubble isn't going quietly into the night, Bush's Moon/Mars plan isn't going quickly into space!"

Comments

My god its full of stars.....

[inmodulo]

... and not just campaign promises

Re:Honestly, I think this is what O'Keefe wanted

[Anonymous Coward]

I have not moved from this location since 1987

Re:Do we?

[petabyte]

Easy, its one of the M's in M&M's. Mars and Murrie. I'm certainly not giving up my (black & white M&M's) for some election year stunt!!

Re:hahahaha ror

[Anonymous Coward]

ror == "raughing out roud" ??

Personally

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally I think all these allocations should be curtailed immediately, and all outstanding US government funds channeled instead into new 9/11 TV ads and putting two bit criminals like Martha behind bars so that HRH King George can be re-elected and really fuck up the world this time so there's no recovery possible.

Re:Too much "Safety"

[rtaylor]

[i]Ahh, too much risk, I see. Maybe we should all stay in bed with the covers pulled over our heads.[/i]

Are you kidding? We could suffocate or get bed sores!

Re:O'Keefe

[argStyopa]

Give us details, not generalized Bush bashing./

This is /., remember. Vagueness and generalized Bush-bashing is pretty much a way of life.

(Otherwise how would all of us Ivory Tower-types expiate our white guilt, if not for some mutual politico-social sef-gratification?)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep this post as a handy reference for the next space thread on /.

• Someone clammoring to send men to Mars
• Someone else saying we should go back to the Moon first
• A long and tiresome sub-thread arguing about robotic vs. manned space exploration
• One person saying the James Webb space telescope (JWST) will replace Hubble, so we should let Hubble fall into the ocean or die
• Follow-up to the above pointing out that JWST sees only infrared and Hubble can do ultraviolet (UV) astronomy
• Another follow-up about adaptive optics making ground-based telescopes nearly as good as orbiting telescopes
• Yet another follow-up pointing out that UV astronomy must be done from orbit
• Some 14-year-old with more imagination than engineering knowledge talking about the wonders of a farside telescope and/or Helium-3 and/or beaming power from the Moon to the Earth
• Someone mentioning that kook Robert Zubrin and his plan to send men to Mars for {suspiciously small amount of $}
• Criticisms of Bush and O'Keefe
• Flustered post from another 14-year-old along the lines of "why don't we just build a space elevator already???"
• A rant about the US space program grinding to a halt for 2+ years when someone dies or something blows up

There. Did I miss anything?