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Hubble Replacement on Slow Track
iamlucky13 writes "The targeted launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared space observatory currently nearing the completion of the design stage, has been pushed back 2 years to help deal with a price tag that has grown to $4.5 billion. This advanced telescope is designed to build upon the achievements of the Hubble after its retirement, peering into deep space with it's large 6.5 meter primary mirror from the L2 point 1.5 million kilometers from earth. As the highest priority science mission on NASA's agenda, a decision was made to spread the extra cost over additional budget cycles rather than compromise it's instrument package. Regardless, some of the lower priority missions may feel the impact of the JWST cost growth."
If you just sit around in your own corner of the world sending ever bigger telescopes into space doing science, you're unlikely to have any islamic lunatics trying to kill you with suicide bombs and bioweapons. They aren't interested in an invasion and aren't going to set about killing themselves to try and hurt you without any sort of a reason.
OTOH if you have a large military and station them all over the globe, which really annoys said islamic lunatics, they are going to try and kill you.
They're only trying to kill you because the US is trying to kill them.
As a US citizen how would you feel if China, Korea, Iran and a few other nations had military bases on US soil? Probably wouldn't put up with it would you? Be pretty pissed and want to fight back. Well then why does the US have military bases in foreign lands? And don't give me any of this world police crap. Iran doesn't want a US sense of morality pushed down their throats any more than US citizens would want an Iranian one pushed down theirs.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
If you just sit around in your own corner of the world sending ever bigger telescopes into space doing science, you're unlikely to have any islamic lunatics trying to kill you with suicide bombs and bioweapons. They aren't interested in an invasion and aren't going to set about killing themselves to try and hurt you without any sort of a reason.
You are waaaay off topic here but I'll reply to the new topic you started. That is exactly the thinking Clinton used while we were attacked 8 times by terrorists and the hijackers from 9/11 were training to attack for 6 years under his nose. They aren't after us because we're in Iraq or Afghanistan. They're after a way of life that opposes their radical belief. You can't ignore terrorism and hope it goes away.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
They're only trying to kill you because the US is trying to kill them.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG. Read up about the beliefs of Muslim extremists and how many times we were attacked during Clintons 8 years while we WEREN'T trying to kill them. 8 times!
As a US citizen how would you feel if China, Korea, Iran and a few other nations had military bases on US soil?
Uh...we don't have bases on their soil either. We're only based on allied territory or in war zones.
Well then why does the US have military bases in foreign lands?
You can thank the dictators from previous wars who drug us into battle for that.
Iran doesn't want a US sense of morality pushed down their throats any more than US citizens would want an Iranian one pushed down theirs.
You wouldn't want nuclear fallout from Iran any more than the US would.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.