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NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble

Posted by timothy on from the we-have-always-been-at-war-with-luna dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Scientific payoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It's not "scientific benefit" that drives the space program these days - it's a quest for Space Supremacy driving the adminstration's decisions.

    Technologies to send our people around the solar system will vastly improve military capabilities (you can't hit what you can't reach); but another big mirror in a pretty standard orbit advances nothing but a few academics.

  2. good riddance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hubble was a piece of trash from day one and has contributed absolutely nothing to science at all. it has only been good for job security for some fucktard schmoe at nasa.

  3. Hubble, Mars, Space Elevator by Jollyeugene · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lets see, what could benefit our understanding of the world, or be useful...

    1. Space Elevator

    2. Hubble

    What is a total waste of time and money, but allows jock pricks to cruise around the universe looking like "cool" Americans...

    1. Going to the moon. (Yawn..)

    2. Going to Mars. (Slightly more interesting to watch, but equally pointless...)

    3. Space Shittle 2... The Next Mistake...

    I vote for option C... defund NASA: Nerdy Assinine Subsidy for Assholes... and my GrandFather worked at Red Mountain and at Fort Bliss and helped found NASA. Sadly, it has no point anymore-- it is becoming a disgrace to the men who founded it. The Space Shittle was the turning point.

  4. Re:Scientific payoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bush is a born-again creationist. Scientific cosmology is bad. Besides, he don't really "hang" with that scientific stuff, and anyway, ignorance is bliss. He aims to be as blissful as possible and has been extremely successful at it for several decades.

    OTOH, he might be a Zogg agent, planted to keep us ignorant for another 10-15 years while the Zogg invaders consume out planet:

    http://www.bitfurnace.com/TheCuddlyMenace

  5. Reason for going to Mars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    President Bush calls up NASA one day.

    Bush: Boys, we's a goin to Mars!

    NASA: Well, we're glad to hear that Mr. President. But, this is so sudden. What is our mission there?

    Bush: Oil, boys! We's a goin for the oil! I want you to drill every inch of that planet until you find it.

    NASA: But...uh...sir, oil requires millions of...

    Bush: What you say? I got the Bin Laden's...er...uh...I mean some important colleagues on line 2.

    NASA: But sir, there's no oil on...

    Bush: Boys, I don't know nuthin bout this silentific mumbo jumbo...you just get those boys from the movie to help you and I'm sure it'll be no problemo.

    NASA: You mean Bruce Willis??? Uh...sir...

    Bush: All right then. I'll just leave it up to you. I got an important round of golf...er...uh...meetings to attend to. Do me proud boys!

    *click*

  6. Re:Scientific payoff by thogard · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  7. Re:Scientific payoff by randallpowell · · Score: -1, Troll
    The Christian Right are wrong. What scares them is the fact that Hubble's pics show a large universe (old), that seems to care less about us (no god's plan), and Hubble didn't take a pic of god (god doesn't want The Globe to get his pic).

    As silly as they said the Christian Right is scared and will do anything to either set science back or outlaw it all together.

  8. religion... by kardar · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.