They're abandonging hubble

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What the fuck?!

Why?? It's just seen backwards in time to 7 million years after the universe was created and they decide to abandon it?! Something that good and all nations should have to club in and help it out. I mean, they can't be that far off making it even better and better and then we'd know the great answer to it all, and isn't that what we're here for? Why can't projects like this take precendce over building weapons?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

abandonging is our new favorite ilx neologism btw

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, it's junk science. The universe is less than 6000 years old.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a pity because there are still many amazing findings turning up, thus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3546803.stm

But the Columbia disaster meant limited service anyway. I don't agree with the decision to completely abandon Hubble -- especially given the combination with a redirection towards Mars which feels all the more like Bush's first election year ploy of many -- but at least there's a successor well under way for development and launch, the James Webb Space Telescope.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus they found out Bill Clinton used to it to looke every woman on earth's top!

― Huck, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, should be "look down"
way to kill a joke there, bad typing dude.

― Huck, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to say it, the joke was already dead, buried, reanimated and stumbling around losing its limbs before you said it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Burn!

― omg, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry yo but holy shit ABANDONGING!!! Every once in awhile a typo comes along that CHANGES EVERYTHING.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry dude. needed the money for the $12,000,000,000 manned mars flight. oh, and the $65,000,000,000 missile defense program.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

And they just put the other Spitzer infared one up and working together with the Hubble it could have taken some great readings!!

If it wern't for that $3.7 billion put into nanotech, I'd hate Bush.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.savethehubble.org/petition.jsp

" To: United States Congress and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Please use my name in petitioning the United States Congress and NASA to not allow the Hubble to be retired, so it can continue to be used for scientific purposes, as well as for educational outreach."

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.savethehubble.org/petition.jsp

xpost damn.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

We have all the time in the universe to see what's up there. Yes, I agree that Hubble was worthwhile, and far more sensible than manned missions to Mars in terms of what you get out for what you put in. But the universe will keep a while longer until another generation decides to pony up the moolah to peer a bit further back into time.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

but physics and astronomy are at the point where unanswered questions could soon be answered just by many more precise readings with better resolutions than we can get on earth.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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