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Hope for Hubble

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-up-your-mind dept.

yulek writes "It may not be over yet. space today reports that Bush's NASA administrator nominee, Michael Griffin, wants to revisit the Hubble decision. Space.com has some more details. The big question is: do we really want to save Hubble for the right reasons or is it more of a symbolic thing? Considering NASA's fiscal woes, is this a waste of funds? I have loved the Hubble images for the last decade, and the research that stemmed from them, but I think that the most incredible camera we've ever made may need more than just an upgrade. Perhaps it is obsolete."

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  1. Hubble can be replaced... by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It may not be over yet. space today reports that Bush's NASA administrator nominee, Michael Griffin, wants to revisit the Hubble decision.

    Told you Bush is a good president!

    (Now I bet I'll be modded -1 Troll or Offtopic or something like that for supporting Bush. But if I were to write a completely inflammatory, trollish, offtopic post about how much Bush lied (Bush did NOT lie, by the way), then I'd be modded +5 Insightful or something like that. Slashdot. What the hell did you expect?)

    Now the on-topic part of my post, as a reward for those Republicans out there who are actually reading this: I think that space exploration is a very meaningful industry, as it ultimately causes technologies to emerge which benefit the whole world. Better types of insulation, machining processes, computers, and other great things resulted from past missions to the moon. I think that further exploration has a lot to offer for the future.

    They are, however, discussing quite a hefty amount of money to fix Hubble, and I think it would be best if the thing could be replaced by a telescope that is much bigger and better. The cost of repairs would undoubtedly be smaller than the cost of building a whole new telescope, but at least several years down the road, we'd have a telescope that is a lot more capable than the current Hubble.

  2. Boom Boom Ba by Ranger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least when Hubble dies and falls into the ocean, we don't have to worry about having a space toilet hit someone and kill them like Mir did in Dead Like Me. But Hubble is going the way of all good TV shows. Cancelled: Firefly, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Enterprise. OK, strike that last one. Enterprise sucked. Oh well Boom Boom Ba.

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