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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Swamp_Thing on April 01, 2005, 12:04:16 pm
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Arr arr, this isn´t exactlly breaking news, but i guess i have to vent some frustration about it. The Hubble was and still is, one of the most important pieces of machinery we have ever made. The images it took are amongst the most beautifull i´ve ever seen. The knowledge we take from it is enormous. So excuse me while i rant here, not understanding why NASA is just letting it crash...
Bush had made a speech where he promissed to boost the NASA budget, to support important projects. So how come we are seeing the exact opposite being done? Hell, how much does it cost to leave it up and running, in comparison to other billion dollar projects? I´d venture it´s a lot cheaper. Instead of reopening the research for smaller and more deadly "nuculer" devices, why don´t they use that money on something that matters?
I would understand it if Hubble had outlived itself past its servicebility, but it hasn´t. Why did they spent millions fixing the miopy problem, only to have it destroyed now? The MIR was old, and decayed. I understood why they just allowed it to drop into the sea. But the Hubble? It´s still in working order, and it will be for a decade or two more.
Hell, sell it, give it away to some private company, i don´t care! Just don´t destroy it because some pencil neck in Washington thinks it´s not worth the money, for Pete´s sake! Give it to the russians, or the japanese. Or the ESA. Just don´t scuttle it.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7353224/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7353224/)
The assessment backs an earlier decision by the White House to scuttle the Hubble. A robotically controlled, liquid-fueled motor would eventually be docked to the telescope. Once ignited, the engine would push the huge observatory into a controlled nose-dive toward a remote ocean spot.
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Arr arr, what d´ya think, ye mateys? Shall we make that scurvy o´ Bush walk t´plank n´ good ol´ Jolly Roger? Arr arr! Where me cutlass be? Arr...
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Originally posted by Swamp_Thin'
Arr arr, what d´ya think, ye mateys? Shall we make that scurvy o´ Bush walk t´plank n´ good ol´ Jolly Roger? Arr arr! Where me cutlass be? Arr...
Yarr! Have 'em Walk t' plank! :nod:
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Arrr, it be purrty stupid, me think. Pay all that booty t'put it up there, an' destroy it after 10 years. Stick e'm in Davy Jone's Locker.
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I thought the Jolly Roger was the flag. Oo;
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Originally posted by delta_7890
I thought th'Jolly Roger was th'flag. Oo;
It is, but it be also th'name o' a ship. There was a heavy metal band that had an album with it, can´t remember whoo they were, though.
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t'scuttle th'hubble that would be wrong it can still do th'job it was designed for.
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not good, should build replacement first.
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I've been trying to find out more about this theory that using several smaller reflectors over a huge area can create one massive 'Super-Reflector' in much the same way as Radio Telescopes can be networked to create one huge 'Dish'.
I think the ESA was looking into something involving a telescope which, in light reception terms, would be a 30 mile wide reflecting telescope?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry
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It's an April Fools prank, morons.