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NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble
maglor_83 writes "NASA has announced the end for Hubble. It plans on performing a "robotic de-orbit mission", and apparently its not due to the monetary costs associated with fixing it, but rather the risks involved. NASA's new goals are now manned missions to the moon, as a platform for Mars."
I hope part of it lands on my field. I just haven't had anything to sell on eBay for a couple years. (I am not referring to Columbia. That's just wrong.)
Given current technology, I see a manned mission to mars as a financial boondogle.
:-P
Not that financial boondogles have stopped this administration from doing anything.
Will Taco Bell be doing another of their brain dead marketing schemes and offer free food like sudstance if the Hubble hits an a given target?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
...how will they know where Mars and/or the moon is?
Seeing as the Government usually can't hit the broad side of a planet, its a pretty fair bet that making myself a target ( again ) will prevent any possibility of me getting hit by Hubble when it crashes.
Cue SNL video of John Belushi smashing his SkyLab model into a Globe of the Earth
- Dave Chappelle in 'The Black President'
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We Canadians seem to like your space program more than you do... but then again, maybe that's cause we don't have to pay for it, just stick big arms on everything you build.
"The entire planet is a desert! With all that desert, there's gotta be oil!"
Dunno about you, but my car doesn't blow itself to smithereens every 100 outings or so.
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Why make a new Hubble? They could just buy back the one in the Smithsonian.
Gee, that $200 Billion + $30 Billion a month spent on Iraq sure would have been useful for Hubble, Health Care, and Social Security.
Maybe if we just cancel Social Security, Shut Down NASA completely, and end welfare
- we can use that money to invade Canada and Mexico?
All the moose meat and tequila you can eat and drink...
And you know that just as soon as you lay that fibre, a backhoe is going to come along and cut it.
if the truth were to get out that it was all a cold-war hoax, it would send american self-esteem into a crisis.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
The end of support for Hubble is quite simply the final installment of proof for whoever still needs it that the US govenment has fallen into barbarism and has abrogated the country's position as a leader in the advancement of science for the public good. All hail the Texas Visigoths! Burn the books, smash the statues, and fire up the barbeques ...