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Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists
wallstreetprodigy23 writes "Some scientists questioned whether a repair mission for the aging Hubble Space Telescope was worth a projected cost of $1 billion to $2 billion at a hearing of the House Science Committee on Wednesday.
Both scientists and legislators praised the orbiting observatory for the many contributions it had made to science since it was launched in 1990. But the telescope needs servicing to continue working...
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i pretty much figured hubble outlived its usefulness already. it seems like a waste to just junk it though. maybe we can turn it around and use it to finally find those wmd's.
There are many reasons current projects cost so much at NASA, and its primarily management directives. NASA spends more money in meetings in one afternoon than the entire cost of achieving the Ansari X-prize last year, without nasa or USA intervention (other than free confirmation of trajectory). But NASA is nearly dead anyway, and their irrational bias in hiring quotas is most of the problem. I am not being a ate monger its just fact.
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There reason the MAJORITY of recent mars missions failed is gender and race bias in hiring and promotion against whites and asians.
Vital FACT! Nasa switched to forced female hiring in most of the recent Mars failures. It would not surprise me if hubble is having a gender influence compared to 15 years ago.
For the first time ever ONLY WOMEN called the shots on the mars missions that failed. read
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/ 04 1899nasa-women.html
for the first time ever all three KEY positions of the failed mars missions were female
Sarah A. Gavit = the mars project manager
Suzanne E. Smrekar, 37, the lead mars scientist
Kari A. Lewis= the mars project's chief engineer
Current hiring rules from the new top level NASA female administration dictate this new female forced hiring policy.
NASA has hiring policies that try to hire women DESPITE IQ or experience. In fact they now PREVENT job related award honors and bonuses based on how many females you hire and how many females and black contractors you hire!!! This is a fact!
NASA publicly has stated this from the woman in charge. I can't tell you about my own memos.
NASA is proud to boast 2% female active engineers minimum and that is WAY out of wack with societies norms.
The mars missions are even more than 2% female.
The average IQ of a Caucasian US Male holding a medical degree is IQ 124, but as the front page of the San Jose Mercury proclaimed in huge block letter headlines, and millions of IQ scores show (see the Bell Curve book data), the chance of a FEMALE obtaining a test score of 124 is EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY than an equivalent male. EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY. Conversely very low IQ people are almost always males. The average IQ is the same for both genders 100, but the IQ distribution bell curves are dramatically different shapes.
NASA boasts a female-minority web site documenting how not only are contractors hired by whether or not they are female or black but what state their small companies reside in! NASA apparently requires all 50 states to have minority participation in parts design and supply for the mars missions! REGARDLESS of competence! Sex and race are the prime criteria for 1999. Check out NASA own detailed list of female and minority small contractors at : http://sbir.nasa.gov. SBIR is a euphemistic acronym for small business innovation research, but as you can easily see it is actually a gender and race quota based system spearheaded by the new women helping to run NASA now.
from the female mars leader
"Women have really added to the workplace because we do come at things from a different angle," she said.
"For the same reason that cultural diversity works, gender diversity is wonderful, too, especially when you're trying to do something creative."
Also from the female mars leader Gavit:
"The fact that we're women hasn't made a difference," she said. "It's not an issue here. But it's good that young girls see that engineering and technical fields are wide open to women. That's the good thing about saying it's a woman-led team."
The report in The Guardian (British) December 7th included the following comment: "The total launch and development costs of NASA's lost Mars spacecraft is put at $320 million.
Forced hiring of women disregarding IQ score or talent created this staggering $320 million loss and many more female related losses are already in the works.
Your two points seem to be in conflict with each other.
First you said repairing Hubble is not a good investment, then you said since we ARE already in Iraq, we should not leave soon.
So since Hubble is already in Space, it does no good to complain about the extra money required for Hubble.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
There are many reasons current projects cost so much at NASA, and its primarily management directives. Nas spends more money in meetings in one afternoon than the entire cost of achieving the Xprize last year, without nasa or USA intervention (other than free confirmation of trajectory). But NASA is nearly dead anyway, and their irrational bias in hiring quotas is most of the problem.
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There reason the MAJORITY of recent mars missions failed is gender and race bias in hiring and promotion against whites and asians.
Vital FACT! Nasa switched to forced female hiring in most of the recent Mars failures. It would not surprise me if hubble is having a gender influence compared to 15 years ago.
For the first time ever ONLY WOMEN called the shots on the mars missions that failed. read
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/ 04 1899nasa-women.html
for the first time ever all three KEY positions of the failed mars missions were female
Sarah A. Gavit = the mars project manager
Suzanne E. Smrekar, 37, the lead mars scientist
Kari A. Lewis= the mars project's chief engineer
Current hiring rules from the new top level NASA female administration dictate this new female forced hiring policy.
NASA has hiring policies that try to hire women DESPITE IQ or experience. In fact they now PREVENT job related award honors and bonuses based on how many females you hire and how many females and black contractors you hire!!! This is a fact!
NASA publicly has stated this from the woman in charge. I can't tell you about my own memos.
NASA is proud to boast 2% female active engineers minimum and that is WAY out of wack with societies norms.
The mars missions are even more than 2% female.
The average IQ of a Caucasian US Male holding a medical degree is IQ 124, but as the front page of the San Jose Mercury proclaimed in huge block letter headlines, and millions of IQ scores show (see the Bell Curve book data), the chance of a FEMALE obtaining a test score of 124 is EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY than an equivalent male. EIGHT TIMES LESS LIKELY. Conversely very low IQ people are almost always males. The average IQ is the same for both genders 100, but the IQ distribution bell curves are dramatically different shapes.
NASA boasts a female-minority web site documenting how not only are contractors hired by whether or not they are female or black but what state their small companies reside in! NASA apparently requires all 50 states to have minority participation in parts design and supply for the mars missions! REGARDLESS of competence! Sex and race are the prime criteria for 1999. Check out NASA own detailed list of female and minority small contractors at : http://sbir.nasa.gov. SBIR is a euphemistic acronym for small business innovation research, but as you can easily see it is actually a gender and race quota based system spearheaded by the new women helping to run NASA now.
from the female mars leader
"Women have really added to the workplace because we do come at things from a different angle," she said.
"For the same reason that cultural diversity works, gender diversity is wonderful, too, especially when you're trying to do something creative."
Also from the female mars leader Gavit:
"The fact that we're women hasn't made a difference," she said. "It's not an issue here. But it's good that young girls see that engineering and technical fields are wide open to women. That's the good thing about saying it's a woman-led team."
The report in The Guardian (British) December 7th included the following comment: "The total launch and development costs of NASA's lost Mars spacecraft is put at $320 million.
Forced hiring of women disregarding IQ score or talent created this staggering $320 million loss and many more female related losses are already in the works.
Kennedy Space Center rents out IMAX II theate
Because Iraq was a potential threat, and we took out that potential by invading.
That is how we protect ourselves. Not by striking back, but by striking first, hard and furiosly.
That puts the terrorists and the world that we don't fuck around. Even look at us the wrong way, we won't be afraid to lay the smackdown on you or even glass you.
That is why I'm proud of my President. He's got a big gun and he's not afraid to use it.
Bingo, motherfucker. Now you better shut up and keep that thing you call 'truth' to yourself or Ann Coulter will call you funny names, change colors a few times and quote Ayn Rand at you...