Hubble rescue back on?

[KvHagedorn]

The damned government is foolish with money in a million ways.. why are we picking this to get nitpicky over?

[Dr Mordrid]

Because this particular bit of foolishness costs so many $$ at once, not to mention putting up to 7 lives in un-necessary danger for little tangible good.

Pffftttt....

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

The damned government is foolish with money in a million ways.. why are we picking this to get nitpicky over?

Because I'm not looking at "the government's" money, I'm thinking of the very small fixed pool that is NASA's undersized budget.

[KRSESQ]

How about it if the mission was funded with private contributions? Since money seems to be the main stumpling block. How about if the skeleton crew were all volunteers? Hell, I'LL go. Teach me how to fly an orbiter and I'll go get the S.O.B myself. Isn't the historical heritage Hupple represents worth ANYTHING better than being uncelemoniously dumped in the Pacific? If not, than why are we even doing space telescopes when ground-based, networked, adaptive-optics telescope arrays could do the same thing more economically? There are radiation spectrums that don't penetrate the atmosphere? Big deal. you don't need a multi-billion $$ space telescope to get those images. Smaller independant satillite telescopes can do the job more economically.

I'm just so sick and tired of our historical heritage being discarded. Nothing is being preserved. There won't be anything left to put in our grand-children's museums.

Hell with it. I apologise for being such a die-hard preservationist. And I apologise for promoting the idea of NASA doing something more attention-grabbing than fixing the ISS gyroscopes yet again.

Kevin

[Wombat]

Hell with it. I apologise for being such a die-hard preservationist. And I apologise for promoting the idea of NASA doing something more attention-grabbing than fixing the ISS gyroscopes yet again.

'cause, ya know, it's not like they have robots broadcasting video and data from Mars or anything.

[KRSESQ]

Bah. Send ME there. THEN I'll be impressed.

Kevin

[xortam]

Mars

Bah. Send ME there. THEN I'll be impressed.

Kevin

I was already sent there ... or at least my signature was.

[Nowhere]

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I'm just so sick and tired of our historical heritage being discarded. Nothing is being preserved. There won't be anything left to put in our grand-children's museums.
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Kevin

Hmm...you know, I have a different idea about historical heritage - more to do with actual knowledge than artifacts. (look at this way: Egiptians left the piramids...but I think we'd all like to know more about their culture/how their lived/etc. ) And hence I'd like the money spend on gathering more knowledge...Physical objects won't last, they'll be destroyed by time sooner or later - we have to accept that, and don't build any values based on them; it's the knowledge (among other things) gathered by our tools that push our civilization forward, the tools itself don't matter after they've met their goal (but the memories of them remain...).
And anyway, how can you live in a computerized world anyway? Why don't you use typewriter/paper/drawings/fax/telegraph?

PS. And one more thing: I think burning end is kinda...romantic. In the same way that only the ones that didn't return from the sea end in legends...