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rk wrote... Damon Hill wrote: OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in : On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:27:42 -0600, Damon Hill wrote: We don't _really_ need Hubble. ..You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you *die* :-P Eh, what's your problem? That was uncalled for, sir. Try it again in 24 hours when you're sober and civil. --Damon I have more respect for you than that. For OM that is sober and civil. Actually, sometimes OM makes Mr Hat look sober and civil - Peter |
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote in : On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:16:05 -0600, Damon Hill wrote: OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in : On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:27:42 -0600, Damon Hill wrote: We don't _really_ need Hubble. ..You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you *die* :-P Eh, what's your problem? That was uncalled for, sir. ...Pat? You want to clue Damon in on this quote? :-) Apparently he didn't. Damon, the quote comes from South Park (Cartman? think so, but unsure). -- JRF Reply-to address spam-proofed - to reply by E-mail, check "Organization" (I am not assimilated) and think one step ahead of IBM. |
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OM wrote: We don't _really_ need Hubble. ..You go to Hell. You go to Hell and you *die* :-P Eh, what's your problem? That was uncalled for, sir. ...Pat? You want to clue Damon in on this quote? :-) It sounds familier, but I can't place it. Pat |
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Jorge R. Frank wrote: Apparently he didn't. Damon, the quote comes from South Park (Cartman? think so, but unsure). That explains it- we only just got access to that channel a couple of months ago; and I've only seen one episode of it. Pat |
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Damon Hill wrote: We can do better, and are. Both in orbit, and on the ground. Astronomy will not be seriously impared by Hubble's demise. What comparable telescopes are in orbit, or planned and funded? As for the ground, note that every Hubble observing-time proposal has to explain why ground-based telescopes cannot do the job. Hubble's demise is going to put a serious crimp in some areas of astronomy, and not all of this will be remedied by JWST -- even assuming it flies and works, to say nothing of staying on schedule. But an updated Hubble using that leftover mirror and updated instruments/systems could probably be kept rather busy. Starting a decade or so from now, the earliest time it could realistically fly even if it were identified as a major priority now. Hubble is dying after having served us so well; time to put our efforts into a replacement. Hubble remains repairable with quite minor risk, and should be kept operating until its replacement is *operational*. -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:21:09 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Jorge R. Frank wrote: Apparently he didn't. Damon, the quote comes from South Park (Cartman? think so, but unsure). ....Yeah, from the first episode, for that matter. Kyle's little brother, Ike, has been kidnapped by the Greys - yeah the ones who buggered Whitley Strieber - and Kyle asks the still-in-the-closet Mr. Garrisson if he can be excused from class so he could go save his little brother from the aliens. "Kyle, you need to ask Mr. Hat." ...."Mr. Hat", is Mr. Garrisson's hand puppet, which acts as his inner self and a voice for said. Mr. Hat replies: "...Let me see, Kyle. No. No! You go to Hell! You go to Hell and you DIE!!" ....Now, if that doesn't clarify things. may the Hubble mirror hit you on the head when it falls down :-P That explains it- we only just got access to that channel a couple of months ago; and I've only seen one episode of it. ....Go over to alt.binaries.multimedia.southpark and get caught up. You've got eight seasons, son. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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OM wrote: That explains it- we only just got access to that channel a couple of months ago; and I've only seen one episode of it. ...Go over to alt.binaries.multimedia.southpark and get caught up. You've got eight seasons, son. I've pretty much lost interest in animated series (whether what they do on South Park counts as animation is a good question; it's certainly minimalist animation if it's animation). Pat |
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:08:04 -0600, Damon Hill
wrote: That means additional Shuttle missions beyond ISS assembly/service, and beyond 2010. Is that really going to happen? (My guess is that Shuttle will fly somewhat beyond then, barring another loss of vehicle.) ....Don't be surprised if Shuttle's life is extended beyond 2010. I figure that, following the tile goo tests on the next two flights, someone at NASA will develop a way to fix the stuff so tile repairs are possible. I predict an extension to 2015, just to give the CEV teams a bit more breathing room. JWST isn't an exact replacement of course, but unless there's real support for Hubble and replacement(s), we're going to have to live with some loss of coverage. ....The problem there is that the design of JWST is flawed in the fact that it's not intended to work in the visible spectrum, which is where the "holy ****!!!" pictures are truly born than catch the attention of Joe Punchclock, Ethyl Soapsjunkie and Hipster Treehugger and make them go "holy ****!!!' and for a brief time get addicted enough to know full well you don't **** with your pusher and they should quit bitching about their tax dollars going to NASA. It's an imperfect world. ....And its defeatest attitudes like this which allow things like Hubble and Skylab to fall from the sky when they're still salvageable. Just because it's an imperfect world doesn't mean we should accept it and allow it to **** things up. We should fight to *improve* those perfections, especially if it flies in the face of those who prefer to allow those imperfections to limit their lives. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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