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January 17th 04, 11:06 PM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:33:08 -0500, Michael McCulloch
wrote: The Hubble has served it's purpose and has had a good life. It's far from the end of its useful life yet. The future of telescopes is ground-based interferometry and adaptive optics. Such observations have already exceeded the capability of the Hubble in some instances and are much less expensive to deploy and maintain. As other people have noted, ground based observatories can't fully substitute for Hubble. How many state-of-the-art ground observatories can be built for the cost of one Hubble servicing mission? Well, if they cancelled all manned spaceflight for cost reasons, that would at least have a consistent logic to it. What makes this perverse lunacy is that they're still spending the money anyway, on busywork trips to that useless orbital camping trailer. It doesn't even make sense from a political standpoint; if they can't do routine maintenance work in low orbit, there's not much chance of people believing the talk about NASA sending people to Mars. -- "Sore wa himitsu desu." To reply by email, remove the small snack from address. http://www.esatclear.ie/~rwallace 
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#42
January 18th 04, 01:15 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
Russell Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:33:08 -0500, Michael McCulloch wrote: The Hubble has served it's purpose and has had a good life. It's far from the end of its useful life yet. The future of telescopes is ground-based interferometry and adaptive optics. Such observations have already exceeded the capability of the Hubble in some instances and are much less expensive to deploy and maintain. As other people have noted, ground based observatories can't fully substitute for Hubble. How many state-of-the-art ground observatories can be built for the cost of one Hubble servicing mission? Well, if they cancelled all manned spaceflight for cost reasons, that would at least have a consistent logic to it. What makes this perverse lunacy is that they're still spending the money anyway, on busywork trips to that useless orbital camping trailer. It doesn't even make sense from a political standpoint; if they can't do routine maintenance work in low orbit, there's not much chance of people believing the talk about NASA sending people to Mars. I favor boosting it to a higher/stable orbit and leaving it there in cold storage until it can be recovered more economically. Something as important to the history of science should be available for our ancestors to see and appreciate. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----
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#43
January 18th 04, 01:15 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
Russell Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:33:08 -0500, Michael McCulloch wrote: The Hubble has served it's purpose and has had a good life. It's far from the end of its useful life yet. The future of telescopes is ground-based interferometry and adaptive optics. Such observations have already exceeded the capability of the Hubble in some instances and are much less expensive to deploy and maintain. As other people have noted, ground based observatories can't fully substitute for Hubble. How many state-of-the-art ground observatories can be built for the cost of one Hubble servicing mission? Well, if they cancelled all manned spaceflight for cost reasons, that would at least have a consistent logic to it. What makes this perverse lunacy is that they're still spending the money anyway, on busywork trips to that useless orbital camping trailer. It doesn't even make sense from a political standpoint; if they can't do routine maintenance work in low orbit, there's not much chance of people believing the talk about NASA sending people to Mars. I favor boosting it to a higher/stable orbit and leaving it there in cold storage until it can be recovered more economically. Something as important to the history of science should be available for our ancestors to see and appreciate. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----
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#44
January 18th 04, 01:15 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
Russell Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:33:08 -0500, Michael McCulloch wrote: The Hubble has served it's purpose and has had a good life. It's far from the end of its useful life yet. The future of telescopes is ground-based interferometry and adaptive optics. Such observations have already exceeded the capability of the Hubble in some instances and are much less expensive to deploy and maintain. As other people have noted, ground based observatories can't fully substitute for Hubble. How many state-of-the-art ground observatories can be built for the cost of one Hubble servicing mission? Well, if they cancelled all manned spaceflight for cost reasons, that would at least have a consistent logic to it. What makes this perverse lunacy is that they're still spending the money anyway, on busywork trips to that useless orbital camping trailer. It doesn't even make sense from a political standpoint; if they can't do routine maintenance work in low orbit, there's not much chance of people believing the talk about NASA sending people to Mars. I favor boosting it to a higher/stable orbit and leaving it there in cold storage until it can be recovered more economically. Something as important to the history of science should be available for our ancestors to see and appreciate. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----
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#45
January 18th 04, 01:15 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
Russell Wallace wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:33:08 -0500, Michael McCulloch wrote: The Hubble has served it's purpose and has had a good life. It's far from the end of its useful life yet. The future of telescopes is ground-based interferometry and adaptive optics. Such observations have already exceeded the capability of the Hubble in some instances and are much less expensive to deploy and maintain. As other people have noted, ground based observatories can't fully substitute for Hubble. How many state-of-the-art ground observatories can be built for the cost of one Hubble servicing mission? Well, if they cancelled all manned spaceflight for cost reasons, that would at least have a consistent logic to it. What makes this perverse lunacy is that they're still spending the money anyway, on busywork trips to that useless orbital camping trailer. It doesn't even make sense from a political standpoint; if they can't do routine maintenance work in low orbit, there's not much chance of people believing the talk about NASA sending people to Mars. I favor boosting it to a higher/stable orbit and leaving it there in cold storage until it can be recovered more economically. Something as important to the history of science should be available for our ancestors to see and appreciate. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----
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#46
January 18th 04, 01:37 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
yeah, I always take crazy people with power seriously...
Orion "Tony Turner" wrote in message ... "P. Edward Murray" wrote in message om... The old adage is that if something sounds to good to be true it probably is... snip I'm asking you to join me,the American members of sci.astro.amateur, to write to the President ,snip All the letters in the world, all the indignant, or emotional, or reasoned newsgroup postings can't hide the fact that Bush's proposals are bull****. Two eyes and an abacus can tell us that. Does ANYone take that man seriously? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/2004
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#47
January 18th 04, 01:37 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
yeah, I always take crazy people with power seriously...
Orion "Tony Turner" wrote in message ... "P. Edward Murray" wrote in message om... The old adage is that if something sounds to good to be true it probably is... snip I'm asking you to join me,the American members of sci.astro.amateur, to write to the President ,snip All the letters in the world, all the indignant, or emotional, or reasoned newsgroup postings can't hide the fact that Bush's proposals are bull****. Two eyes and an abacus can tell us that. Does ANYone take that man seriously? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/2004
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#48
January 18th 04, 01:37 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
yeah, I always take crazy people with power seriously...
Orion "Tony Turner" wrote in message ... "P. Edward Murray" wrote in message om... The old adage is that if something sounds to good to be true it probably is... snip I'm asking you to join me,the American members of sci.astro.amateur, to write to the President ,snip All the letters in the world, all the indignant, or emotional, or reasoned newsgroup postings can't hide the fact that Bush's proposals are bull****. Two eyes and an abacus can tell us that. Does ANYone take that man seriously? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/2004
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#49
January 18th 04, 01:37 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
yeah, I always take crazy people with power seriously...
Orion "Tony Turner" wrote in message ... "P. Edward Murray" wrote in message om... The old adage is that if something sounds to good to be true it probably is... snip I'm asking you to join me,the American members of sci.astro.amateur, to write to the President ,snip All the letters in the world, all the indignant, or emotional, or reasoned newsgroup postings can't hide the fact that Bush's proposals are bull****. Two eyes and an abacus can tell us that. Does ANYone take that man seriously? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/2004
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#50
January 18th 04, 08:18 AM
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To Good To Be True....Let's save the Hubble
starman wrote: Russell Wallace wrote: I favor boosting it to a higher/stable orbit and leaving it there in cold storage until it can be recovered more economically. Something as important to the history of science should be available for our ancestors to see and appreciate. I doubt our ancestors could appreciate it much, in their condition! -- ------ Rick S. http://users.rcn.com/rflrs
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