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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Where the money could come from

[Halvard]

Go ahead and mod me off topic if you like or a troll or inflammatory, but just think about it for a moment.I'm trying to make a serious point.

How about from the universal health care that the Bush administration wants to pay for in Iraq when there's no way they'd want a program like that for Americans? Or the additional $80 billion authorization for the next year in Iraq and Afganistan for military operations (you know, 1/80th of that)? Or defunding the religious groups getting government dollars? Or scaling back the tax break for the wealthiest 1% of Americans by, oh, say, $714 each (for the high end at $2 billion)?

Or maybe NOT cap penalties that the government take from business that do wrong like Tyco, Worldcom, Microsoft, etc. where the monetary punishment is less than the taxes they would have paid had they done things above board?

If only we could give back 1 of the B2 bombers that the Republican Congress pushed through when the DOD and Air Force wanted to kill it off, that would pay for somewhere between 2 and 4 repair missions. In roughly 1992 dollars.