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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."
As scary as your post is, your right.
To the religious right, advanced astrophysics is useless but being 1st to the moon shows that divine providence is still alive.
And don't discount the Zoggs... a large number of religious nuts also seem to believe in UFOs.
We have a president that is very comitted to the particular brand of Christianity. I went to a "fundamentalist" Christian grade school; I was taught early on that I might fail tests that asked questions about the age of the earth were I to enter a public high school or university, that this was just a test from God and it was the right thing to do answer the questions "wrong", (i.e. write an account of the creation story in the Bible on an essay question, or stick to the young earth theory) - regardless of the consequences to my grade in the course. All those scientists are wrong. Rocks aren't billions of years old, God is just testing our faith in him by making it look like they are. The universe appears to be expanding because God made it look that way, in order to test our faith and see how strong it is; it's actually only 4000 years old.
Yes, the Earth is 4000 years old, and God created it in seven days. That's what it says in the Bible, and obviously that's how the American people feel about it. Why have some gizmo up there that's costing billions of dollars telling us that the Bible is wrong?
A mission to Mars is not incompatible with the Bible at all (even though the science involved might make certain assumptions about gravity and time) - but the Hubble is incompatible with the Bible, which is incompatible with "what the majority of God-fearing Americans want", so how can you ask for people's tax dollars to send gizmos up there that keep telling us that the Bible is wrong and that the universe is billions and billions of years old?
Of course, I AM wrong about this; that's not the deal at all. It must be just a strange coincidence.