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No Money For Hubble Service Mission

Posted by michael on from the sacrifices-have-to-be-made dept.

starexplorer writes "SPACE.com is reporting that the White House has eliminated funding for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request. After many options 1, 2 were explored, is this the death knell for Hubble?"

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  1. Who needs hubble? by bogado · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who needs science when one can make war? More money to invade Iran or North Koreia. One of them must have some weapons of mass destruction. :-/

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    []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins

    ^[:wq

  2. Re:aaaah Political doublespeak... by JaffaKREE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1 Billion a lot ? Dickhead spent 40 million on his fucking party yesterday.

  3. repair money went to Iraq no-bit contracts by hedley · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    and to the war machine.

    Screw science, the govt wants a ton of dumb serfs anyway, the rich will count their monies and outsource the hard work overseas leaving the burger flippers here.

    Hedley

  4. Blah Blah Blah by mveloso · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've heard this argument for years. Private funding, pure research, blah blah blah.

    Last decade it was "falling behind the Japanese." This decade it's "falling behind Europe." Next decade it will be "outsourcing to the Asian Subcontinent."

    "Significant research" in this instance means "government funded mental masterbation."

    "Long term pure research" means "I'm going to spend your money and you won't understand what I'm doing anyway so why should I bother to explain it to you."

    This is how university-based welfare recipients self-justify their huge government handouts. If you think you're a genius working on revolutionary stuff wait for a MacArthur grant to show up. Everyone else can get in line with the other poor folks.