(slight flamage) How many HST servicing missions for $US87 billion?

(Mike Flugennock) wrote in
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That's the question I'm asking myself lately, along with how many
teachers' salaries can be paid with that, and how many schools can be
built, and how many hospitals -- how many flights to service HST could
be paid for with $87 billion (not a _huge_ number of flights, I'm
sure) -- because that's about what President Monkey Boy ****ed away
for a war and occupation based on total bull****...and the friggin'
Democrats went along with it, to add insult to injury.

Feel better now? Now go read O'Keefe's reasons for cancelling the
servicing mission, and realize he probably would have come to the same
conclusion even if Bush had announced no change in space policy.

Welcome to the post-Columbia world of "perfect safety".


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Mike Flugennock wrote:

...President Monkey Boy ...

Kucinich?

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(Mike Flugennock) wrote in
:

That's the question I'm asking myself lately, along with how many
teachers' salaries can be paid with that, and how many schools can be
built, and how many hospitals -- how many flights to service HST could
be paid for with $87 billion (not a _huge_ number of flights, I'm
sure) -- because that's about what President Monkey Boy ****ed away
for a war and occupation based on total bull****...and the friggin'
Democrats went along with it, to add insult to injury.

Feel better now? Now go read O'Keefe's reasons for cancelling the
servicing mission, and realize he probably would have come to the same
conclusion even if Bush had announced no change in space policy.

Welcome to the post-Columbia world of "perfect safety".

Yes, I caught that at Spaceflight Now. They've made a lot of horrible
decisions regarding flight safety recently, and by people trying to do it
on the cheap, but I wonder if trying to be "perfectly safe" is going to
make things nearly impossible.

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(Mike Flugennock) wrote in news:71v43mm0zk-
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In article , "Jorge R. Frank"
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Welcome to the post-Columbia world of "perfect safety".

Yes, I caught that at Spaceflight Now. They've made a lot of horrible
decisions regarding flight safety recently, and by people trying to do it
on the cheap, but I wonder if trying to be "perfectly safe" is going to
make things nearly impossible.

It will. An agency unwilling to risk servicing HST has no business even
talking about the moon.


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In article , Scott Lowther wrote:
Mike Flugennock wrote:

...President Monkey Boy ...

Kucinich?

I have to admit, I like the idea of a Kucinich adminstration... simply
for the sight of about fifty million heads exploding in disbelief come
November :-)

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Andrew Gray wrote:

In article , Scott Lowther wrote:
Mike Flugennock wrote:

...President Monkey Boy ...

Kucinich?

I have to admit, I like the idea of a Kucinich adminstration... simply
for the sight of about fifty million heads exploding in disbelief come
November :-)

That, and we'd finally to to rest the notion that states are not allowed
to secceed from the Union...

It'd be interesting to watch President Kucinich of the United States Of
Washington D.C. try to explain what the hell happened...

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"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
. .. I have to admit, I
like the idea of a Kucinich adminstration... simply
for the sight of about fifty million heads exploding in disbelief come
November :-)

Weekly World News, week of November 14, 2004:

"Proof Satan Exists: Seen in line at Home Depot buying space heaters!"

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:41:32 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote:

That, and we'd finally to to rest the notion that states are not allowed
to secceed from the Union...

It'd be interesting to watch President Kucinich of the United States Of
Washington D.C. try to explain what the hell happened...

Nah, I don't think most Americans are such "fair weather" partriots that
they'd even consider renouncing their citizenship just because their guy
didn't win the Presidency in the latest election...

Dale

In article ,
Mike Flugennock wrote:
Welcome to the post-Columbia world of "perfect safety".

Yes, I caught that at Spaceflight Now. They've made a lot of horrible
decisions regarding flight safety recently, and by people trying to do it
on the cheap, but I wonder if trying to be "perfectly safe" is going to
make things nearly impossible.

As I've noted elsewhere, I think the "perfect safety" business is just a
handy excuse this time, the same way "improved safety" was a convenient
excuse to kill Shuttle-Centaur (a project that JSC hated). The real issue
here is the prospect of a never-ending series of requests for Hubble
funding extensions, further servicing flights, etc., and the opportunity
to kill that whole series with one blow by declaring further visits
impossible. The demise of the *planned* servicing flight is just
collateral damage from that preemptive strike.

(And as with Shuttle-Centaur, the excuse is not *entirely* fabricated --
the issue is real, even it's being exaggerated to serve a hidden agenda.)
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