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Canadian Robot Could Rescue Hubble

Posted by timothy on from the mounties-in-space dept.

NETHED writes "We have all seen Stories about The Hubble Space Telescope and its current problems. Since then, NASA has okayed the fix of the HST. It seems that America's neighbor to the North has some answers. Dextre to the rescue. The mission would not be decided upon until next summer says Sean O'Keefe. It seems that NASA saw this as a good way to listen to the public for about 1.6 billion dollars." Update: 08/11 15:45 GMT by T : Reader Michael Mol dug up a link with a more technical explanation of Dextre, noting "It looks like Dextre's normally supposed to be attached to something before it performs work."

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  1. Does your life lack a cause? by Bring+back+the+old+t · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There are people who get up every day, work a 9 to 5 and go home to their families trading their lives for varying degrees of cash. In my view, though clearly not theirs, they are selling their lives very cheaply. These are wage slaves and the difference between people like that and a zombie is generally lost on me. Do you realize that many, I'm not saying all or even most, of the Linux supporters are like this, they have never coded anything in their lives, have never even played a video game, in fact the only reason they are supporting Linux is because it is a cause and their life lacks one. That is an incredibly sad group of folks, and I wonder what their reaction will be when they finally understand they are supporting software and not the second coming.

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. SCTV? by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For some reason this reminds me of an episode of SCTV where 3CP-TV blocks the canadian satellite and some Red Adair-type goes up to fix the canadian satellite and suddenly finds himself screwed out of his return trip on the candian rocket, so he jumps on one of the satellites and rides it back to earth as CCCP starts WW III, launching missiles at Canada.

    I just hope they don't follow this script with Hubble.

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  5. Re:Why bother? by namilax · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what the hell is with your sig file?

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    -- namilax!
  6. Re:Canadian Robot to fix Canadian Telescope by garcia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Welcome to Slashdot where trolls troll about trolling, high UIDs trolls troll about low UIDs trolling, and where people whine about subjective moderation.

  7. Re:Cool by justkarl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not going to make any jokes about left handed people being sinister in case they ended up with all the mod points today.

    I'm not making a joke or anything, actually this is pure speculation on the very informative post of parent, but is that where right/left in reference to conservative/liberal categorization comes from? Most conservatives would probably say that liberals are "evil" and "sinister"(I guess I wouldn't know, being a liberal). Anybody have an idea?

  8. Re:Didn't realise Canada did that much in Space by shufler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That must explain why my Bell Mobility signals are shit.

  9. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read this

  10. This looks like a job for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It looks like Dextre's normally supposed to be attached to something before it performs work.

    Now that Alvin has nothing to do, glue Dextre to Alvin and throw them up there.

  11. I guess this thing is a male by jrf83317 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Does anyone else think this thing looks like it has a penis

    http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/app/gallery/results2.as p?image_id=spdm