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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So true, so true.

[bennomatic]

And don't even get me started on universal health care...

Re:So true, so true.

[AtariAmarok]

"JonKatz, his screed rejected!"

Re:So true, so true.

[hesiod]

> There is a shortage of licensed health care professionals at the moment

I don't buy that. It's not that there aren't enough, but that some of these assholes go into stuff like plastic surgery -- obviously that is because they are greedy and plastic surgeons make more than any responsible and sane person can spend.

If someone reading is a plastic surgeon and takes offense to that... fuck off, you greedy bastard.

> Eliminate insurance. I welcome any explanation as to why I'm an idiot for even considering this.

Even with tort reform, you are going to have perfectly reasonable mistakes happen that are worthy of a lawsuit. Well, if that doctor doesn't have a huge bank account (I know it's extremely rare to find a doctor that isn't overpaid, but imagine he just paid for his latest jet in cash), the first lawsuit will bankrupt him. Unless by tort reform you mean "doctors cannot be sued," which I doubt. That's why they have insurance.

Re:Agreed

[Grishnakh]

Protect itself from what? WMDs that don't actually exist? Terrorists that aren't actually in the country we're invading? Please tell me, how was invading Iraq "protecting ourselves"?

Re:Agreed

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I understand....

As the press tells it, The World Trade Center in NYC was attacked by a bunch of terrorists funded by a bunch of guys in Saudi Arabia. These terrorists trained to use their weapons (learned to fly) in a training camp (flight school) in florida. Now, the US couldn't bomb the camps in Florida, cause Jeb lives there; and we couln't bomb Saudi Arabia, because we need their oil. But the people in the contry needed to get their anger out, so we had to find someone to bomb. Well, conveniently, our weapons inspectors had already discovered that Iraq had essentially disarmed itself completely, so that'd be a nice safe target. QED.

Re:Agreed

[Cecil]

These days savage arabs, mainly.

Yeah, those fucking towelheads, or is "sand nigger" the preferred term nowadays?

Let's restart the motherfucking crusades... nevermind, I guess we already have. Bringing christianity, bringing democracy, the goal is the same -- kill anyone with different beliefs.

What an enlightened bunch you are.

Re:Peanuts

[TheFlyingGoat]

Hard? Google for "iraq civilian deaths".
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

They're reporting 17884 civilians. So that's around 20,000 if you count coalition military as well. The only number missing then is the number of insurgents that have been killed. It's also worth noting that most of those 17884 were killed by suicide bombers (see the database on the site - 7350 were from the coalition force).

Now for a comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of _prisoners_in _Iraq_under_Saddam_Hussein

Looks like Saddam killed at least 250,000 people just in 1988 and after the first Gulf war. Are you going to say that the allies were wrong in going after Hitler too?

Re:Agreed

[Grishnakh]

Who has the selective memory, and what do Democrats have to do with anything?

I remember hearing all these claims from our leadership about how Iraq had and was developing WMD. Indeed, these quotes back that up. Well, where the f**k are they?

I don't care what political party anyone who said anything belongs to. All I care about is that we're involved in yet another Vietnam, wasting money and lives, because of lies by our leadership.