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NASA Seeks Proposals For Hubble Robotic Servicing
hcg50a writes "SpaceFlight Now has an article about NASA asking for proposals to mount a robotic mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Such a Hubble-servicing mission would occur toward the end of calendar year 2007. If you like politics mixed with your spaceflight, you can read NASA Administrator O'Keefe's speech in which the announcement was made."
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Oh no! Might be moderated!!! God help us all!!!!
Did I say untested?
Drug testing is pathologically conservative these days and it is keeping potentially effective drugs from the markets and driving prices of the new, approved drugs through the roof. This hurts us much, much more in the long run than anomalies like thalidomide (which is back, by the way).
The owls are not what they seem
bio chauvinists huh. I bet you think your clever. what if I was to call you a zombie robot lover? I believe a certain ST:TNG episode titled ``Hero Worship'' is apropo.
Maybe you haven't tried hard enough?
You can actually make a living being a human guini pig. The drug companies will pay you thousands of dollars to sit in a controlled environment for a few weeks to months while they test their new phase3 drugs out on you. If you don't might the sideeffects and like lots of time reading and surfing on your laptop then its a great job. I still dont make enough to pay for health insurance though. catch22.
Actually, the big problem with drug testing is that it's left too much to the corporations with an interest in having the drug pass the tests, so ineffective or dangerous treatments are being passed. This
a) hurts the patients who get the bad treatments
b) holds back progress towards treatments that really work
So what's urgently needed is more, and more rigorous, drug testing.
I doubt the president knows how to spell "vision".
But I think that sentence mend they need/want more funding.
holy shit?! is this true? all this time ive been wasting my time by selling my blood for chump change!!!!! i gotta get me sum of that easy m0!
Fucking racist. What are you doing on /.? This is a blog for smart people.
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cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by
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The only thing John Conner managed to stop was his own death.
In the autumn of 1969, Clinton entered the draft but received a high number in the lottery (311) and was never called to serve. Geroge W. Bush got a cushy assignment flying National Guard jets in Texas. Or was it Alabama? Whatever, it seems he wasn't sure either. For fun and extra credit, compare Bush and Kerry.
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President Bush's war on terror has been nothing short of heroic.
What a low bar you have to jump these days to become a hero. Sad.
There were some youths in my street last week writing obscenities on a wall. I phoned the police. According to your criteria for a hero, that makes me one.