You are right. This means that two missions would be needed to extend the life of Hubble: one to raise the orbit, then one to perform a controlled descent. $$$$.
I think you are making some good points. RFID is good technology, but is is necessary to ask if it can be used as a key part of a system that achieves a purpose. The timestamps and other corroborating info you mention are essential. It implies, by the way, that the law enforcement personnel are under at least as much surveillance as car owners. It is also necessary that this system be time effective; there are lots of demands on a policeman's time. You also bring up an assault on the integrity of the information. Attaching the RFID to a car immediatly makes it a much more lucrative target, perhaps worth a criminals time. I am much less worried about official misuse than misuse by the predatory.
Slashdot Mirror
The secret of my origin is out. I have trouble understanding quantum mechanics, too!
You are right. This means that two missions would be needed to extend the life of Hubble: one to raise the orbit, then one to perform a controlled descent. $$$$.
Sorry, gravity weakens as 1/radius^4, no matter what the Hubble's orbit. To put the Hubble farther from earth inevitably takes additional energy.
I think you are making some good points. RFID is good technology, but is is necessary to ask if it can be used as a key part of a system that achieves a purpose. The timestamps and other corroborating info you mention are essential. It implies, by the way, that the law enforcement personnel are under at least as much surveillance as car owners. It is also necessary that this system be time effective; there are lots of demands on a policeman's time. You also bring up an assault on the integrity of the information. Attaching the RFID to a car immediatly makes it a much more lucrative target, perhaps worth a criminals time. I am much less worried about official misuse than misuse by the predatory.