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No Money For Hubble Service Mission
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?"
pitched it to Bush as a way to finally find those missing WMDs, the administration would have spent billions on it....
Can't they just stop off on the way to mars?
Photos.
Crash it like they did the Mir...then I can put my blender up on EBay as set it for hundreds as "Hubble Debris".
*ring* *ring* "Hello, Energiya?" "It's the wealthy ingrates." "Huh? No, America not France." "We've got the 100 million, you want it in dollars or *heheh* euros?" "What!?! France bought all Soyuz missions for the next ten years?" "Go ask Chirac? Yeah, very funny."
Yeah, put it on EBay for an auction. Mark it as "Will not ship, must pick up."
Maybe it'll crash on me so I won't have to worry about Social Security.
That brings up an important question. Can parts of hubble be run without sending up a service rocket? Say we do not service it but try to keep using it, what would go wrong?
any company can start taking ground photos etc from hubble and make things profitable.
would be fun to buy space junk and run linux on their CPUs..... http://hubblecontrol.sf.net...
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Last time Taco Bell promised a free vouchers for everyone if MIR hits a floating target.
NASA, PLEASE, don't miss the bulls eye now! I want my free burrito!
Yeah, and as long as we can end the auction before the next gyro goes out, we can even provide free delivery with a controlled de-orbit...
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
An interesting way to describe America! Poetic, even.
How about putting a PayPal donation button on their homepage?
(just kidding)
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In case you hadn't hear, we already won that war, and currently we're having a great deal of success with our peacekeeping efforts. In fact, there's going to be free elections in Iraq in less than two weeks.
Maybe you were thinking of the cost of the upcoming war with Iran, but I have it on good authority that it's going to be a cake walk, and our soldiers will be greeted as liberators.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Maybe letting the Hubble burn up in a fiery inferno is Bush's way of bringing democracy to it.
If you ask why a space telescope would need democracy, you are acting very un-american.
You try saying "Hubble" with a Chinese accent!
"Hurble.. Hurber.. Murble"
Never gonna happen.
As long as Hubble has the capability to shout 'over here, up a bit, up a bit, now left' you might have a chance.
You know, if they could just find a way to use the Hubble in porn production, there would be no shortage of funding for it!