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Voyager and Ulysses to be Terminated?
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Harald Kucharek wrote: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/voyager1-05a.html Thoughts? Opinions? Personally I think this one is unlikely, but it seems to fall within the Bush initiative. NASA got some flak for killing Hubble, but at least there was a billion dollar price tag involved. With only a four million dollar price tag on it, NASA should get nuked for killing the Voyagers. No, no: thank President Bush and his amazing vanishing budget surplus. Thanks, President Bush! |
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These probes are essentially returning no new data. The expenditure of
four $million a year on them would be almost criminal. The only reason the amount seems small is that NASA routinely spends tens of millions shuffling paper. |
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richard schumacher wrote:
In article , Harald Kucharek wrote: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/voyager1-05a.html Thoughts? Opinions? Personally I think this one is unlikely, but it seems to fall within the Bush initiative. NASA got some flak for killing Hubble, but at least there was a billion dollar price tag involved. With only a four million dollar price tag on it, NASA should get nuked for killing the Voyagers. No, no: thank President Bush and his amazing vanishing budget surplus. Thanks, President Bush! The Voyagers are coming close to the end of the heliosphere and would have been the first man-made machines to reach interstellar space. That kind of space is vastly different than what we find in the influence sphere of the Sun. (The heliosphere). The composition, particle/count, etc of interstellar space will become increasingly interesting when we start to understand what is the composition of our galactic neighborhood. Such things are beyond the understanding and intellectual ability of the Bush administration however. Stop science, and start the hype about "the moon and beyond". Once all science is gone from NASA, you shut down it altogether in the next financial squeeze. The Bush administration needs 1.8 bill dollars a day to get going. This is furnished by foreign investors, but as even Greenspan acknowledges, this is not going to last forever. In the impeding financial squeeze, NASA will completely disappear. |
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Revision wrote:
These probes are essentially returning no new data. The expenditure of four $million a year on them would be almost criminal. The only reason the amount seems small is that NASA routinely spends tens of millions shuffling paper. The Voyagers are coming close to the end of the heliosphere and would have been the first man-made machines to reach interstellar space. That kind of space is vastly different than what we find in the influence sphere of the Sun. (The heliosphere). The composition, particle/count, etc of interstellar space will become increasingly interesting when we start to understand what is the composition of our galactic neighborhood. Such things are beyond the understanding and intellectual ability of the Bush administration however. Stop science, and start the hype about "the moon and beyond". Once all science is gone from NASA, you shut down it altogether in the next financial squeeze. The Bush administration needs 1.8 bill dollars a day to get going. This is furnished by foreign investors, but as even Greenspan acknowledges, this is not going to last forever. In the impeding financial squeeze, NASA will completely disappear. |
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