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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!"
Hurray for checks and balances! Mebbe Bush won't totally screw Nasa over after all...
If I didn't get it, I'll set my pubic hair on fire and - as usual - photos will be posted on the web.
Ever reach The Marching Morons, by C.M. Kornbluth?
Your a moron. There is no reason to expend vast amounts of resources for 1 human to set foot on mars. The info from robots is adaquate.
Mars is poliitcal. Bush sucks!
Has anyone looked into what outside contractors stand to benifit from a trip to Mars?
Does Halliburton have a space division? (Maybe they will charge 20x more than usual for each packet of Tang and freeze-dried iced cream!)
Why don't you embrace your slashbotness instead of living in a dreamworld?
better question: why would anyone intelligent EVER vote for George Bush?
Yes, we need a manned Mars mission REALLY BADLY! Or else the terrorists are going to win!
You worthless retard!
omfg ror
NASA isn't suggesting that they take it down; they are just not going to spend money keeping it up.
What is wrong with not having "Hubble as backup" ? Is it such a disaster if we don't have the weekly dose of artificially colored pics of distant galaxies for a couple of years ?
I mean seriously, suppose Hubble fails tomorrow. The new telescope won't be up for 5 years, probably 4 times that long, afterall we are talking about NASA here. Who is going to die ? What's the big deal if your daily check of space.com has to have x-prize stories and interviews with Russian astronauts or something ?
I think a serious case can be made that Hubble was a waste of money. "Contributing to astrophysics" doesn't count; let the Church of Sagan buy their own statuary.
It's all pointless anyway -- if you read the article, these are just DEMOCRATS in Congress making some yapping. They have about as much chance of passing anything in Congress as I do.
You dumb lefties just can't resist any chance at an offtopic troll can you?
I Am worried the Democrats will kill it
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Aaaaaaawwwwwww!
Get a life, moron.
/. moderation is a joke. Overrun by lefties.
I'm afraid of what Bush will try to pull off in space, as a last desperate attempt to serve his military buddies, once he realizes he's getting fired in November. Not only does he ignore humans in his slavish corporate devotion, but he's really, really, stupid - and he's got The Button.
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make install -not war
I can't find the original post, but I know this is a plagiarism troll.
nobody is going to mars under a 'bush initiative'. like a fairy godmother, this hateful poseur waves his wand of fantasy space exploration and geeks fall over as if mesmerized. suddenly, it doesn't matter how many people he's illegally imprisoned, how many careers his poisonous political machine has destroyed, how much of the middle class' money he's diverted to his corporate cronies or how many nice 20 year olds he's sent into a meat grinder - hey hey hey we going to fucking mars! w00t!w00t! can you pull your head out of your linux box for a second and say "gullible"? i KNEW you could!
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
*spooge*
Good thing we are already there, doing research. What else do you want? Do you want to go there? Why? The costs are ridiculous, the technology unavailable, and the results dubious. In fact humans are vastly inferior to robots for data collection, which is what any scientific mission is going to amount to unless you intend to fly the entire staff and facilities of the JPL, CalTech, various NASA labs etc. Unless you think you can stand in one place unattended for a week awaiting orders, you may want to consider giving the rock collecting job to a disposable robot.
I am convinced that the ultimate result of this wrangling will be a far more realistic view of the facts regarding human exploration in space. Far too many of society's views have been shaped by media (scifi etc) that portrays space travel as healthy, fruitful, and inevitable.
People, this is a troll repost from anti-slash.org.
"Sufferin' succotash."