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!!!Hubble Trouble Bush Shuttle Bubble.
Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the
SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up. There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians |
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He's already blew it with the war.
-- Dragons Must Fly when Thread's in the Sky www.starlords.org "Aunt Buffy" wrote in message news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up. There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.691 / Virus Database: 452 - Release Date: 5/26/04 |
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"Aunt Buffy" wrote in message news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up. There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians Dear Aunt Buffy, I can't believe the Hubble will be abandoned totally. I imagine that if the Feds cut off funding for it completely, that there will be some sort of philanthropic volunteer measure to rescue it and make it a private venture, or possible funded jointly between various groups and governments. I don't know it's fully expected lifetime from right now, but I think it's still fully functional without physical tending for some period of a year yet. I'd send a hundred bucks to some volunteer effort to rescue it. The US is not the only country that could send up a repair crew. Russ Evenhouse |
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Currently a shuttle trip has been ruled out. NASA is seeking tenders for a
robotic rescue (deadline July 2004! - and they claimed beagle had tight deadlines). Here is the news story: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995066 "Russ Evenhouse" wrote in message ... "Aunt Buffy" wrote in message news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up. There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians Dear Aunt Buffy, I can't believe the Hubble will be abandoned totally. I imagine that if the Feds cut off funding for it completely, that there will be some sort of philanthropic volunteer measure to rescue it and make it a private venture, or possible funded jointly between various groups and governments. I don't know it's fully expected lifetime from right now, but I think it's still fully functional without physical tending for some period of a year yet. I'd send a hundred bucks to some volunteer effort to rescue it. The US is not the only country that could send up a repair crew. Russ Evenhouse |
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In message , Russ Evenhouse
writes "Aunt Buffy" wrote in message news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up. There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians Dear Aunt Buffy, I can't believe the Hubble will be abandoned totally. I imagine that if the Feds cut off funding for it completely, that there will be some sort of philanthropic volunteer measure to rescue it and make it a private venture, or possible funded jointly between various groups and governments. I don't know it's fully expected lifetime from right now, but I think it's still fully functional without physical tending for some period of a year yet. I'd send a hundred bucks to some volunteer effort to rescue it. The US is not the only country that could send up a repair crew. Actually the US _is_ the only country that can send the equipment to do any good. They aren't going to cut off funding before it fails, but the planned repair/replacement mission won't happen, and the equipment already paid for by the US taxpayer will not be used (like Triana, for instance). It will be stored at a cost which will come out of other missions. -- What have they got to hide? Release the full Beagle 2 report. Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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"Aunt Buffy" wrote in message
news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! Highly unlikely... the economy and the war will be much more decisive issues. This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up Have you polled them all? There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians Since you hate them 100% of the time, you must have more than the Hubble as an issue... or have you only started hating them since last March? |
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Astronauts - I didn't need to poll them - they have sent in their own
petition to the president. Politicians - People who seek power are not necessarily those that deserve power. However it does beat anarchy : ) . "Paul Lawler" wrote in message link.net... "Aunt Buffy" wrote in message news:Pd2wc.133$Ol6.5@newsfe2-win... Seeing as its an election year for the USA. I can not see BUSH allowing the SHUTTLE to go up and rescue Hubble - since the possibility of failure (on many fronts) would hurt his quest for extended presidency! Highly unlikely... the economy and the war will be much more decisive issues. This despite the majority of astronauts wanting to go up Have you polled them all? There are times (100%) when I truly hate the politicians Since you hate them 100% of the time, you must have more than the Hubble as an issue... or have you only started hating them since last March? |
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