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Hubble Future Is Cloudier After Katrina

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the up-in-the-air dept.

XorNand writes "The AP is reporting that Katrina has further jeopardized the already tenuous future of the Hubble space telescope. The hurricane damaged the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the shuttle's fuel tanks are built, and the Mississippi-based Stennis Space Center, where shuttle engines are tested, NASA officials said."

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  1. Just as well by Data+Link+Layer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who really needs to see in space when we have to fund a meaningless war

    1. Re:Just as well by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree completly. Our nation has a problem when half of all discretionary spending is spent on the Military. As opposed to things like education, or scientific research, or disease prevention, or relief efforts (remember the embarrassingly little we gave to the tsunami victims?), or a thousand little other things.

      And don't get me wrong, this isn't just liberalspeak. Our lovely 'liberals' in congress want to continue the war too.

      On a lighter note, IIRC the James Webb Space Telescope was going to replace Hubble anyways.

    2. Re:Just as well by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Slashdot: the place with trolls who haven't taken US Government 101.

      I specifically said Discretionary spending. That's the stuff they have direct control over, and is what the majority of the budget process is over.

      Medicare and Social Security are what are known as Entitlements because people are entitled to them by law. The Government (namely, Congess) does NOT have direct control over entitlements, but they have control to the last penny of discretionary spending.