- Would you take your car to the junk yard
- simply because IT RAN OUT OF GAS?
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- THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NASA IS PLANNING
TO DO WITH THE BILLION DOLLAR HUBBLE !
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- (Perhaps the title of this should be
"NASA - More Money Than Brains?")
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- I wrote about this (and other space programs) almost
one year ago, at http://www.rense.com/general65/voy.htm.
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- Hubble Space Telescope
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- With a space program that's had so many
Monumental Screw-ups - can we afford to dump a first-class working instrument
like Hubble?
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- This orbiting observatory brought us
tens of thousands of images at very high resolution.
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- We have learned:
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- * To see the edge of the known universe,
to a point so far that no starlight is seen past that point
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- * Where millions of stars are that were
never known before
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- * That galaxies are moving away from
one another, often in clusters at the edge of the universe. This was unknown
before.
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- * Where stellar nurseries are, showing
us stars in various states of formations
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- * How to develop new imaging technologies
that can survive the rigors of orbital temperature extremes and radiation
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- * The galaxy is forever expanding, disproving
the theory it will collapse to a point one day. This also casts doubt on
the big-bang theory, too.
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- These are just a few of the things we
have discovered that changed astronomy and physics - important facts that
would never have been learned about otherwise.
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- The cost to simply re-fuel the spacecraft
amounts to a very small part of NASA's multi-billion dollar budget. This
could have been accomplished easily before the shuttle was grounded, but
NASA in it's infinite "wisdom" decided otherwise. Federal deficits
have reached previously unheard-of levels, and it's unlikely
that anyone alive today will ever see another Hubble-type observatory launched.
Now NASA's focus is on robotic exploration of our solar system.
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- Can we simply let Hubble be destroyed
by de-orbiting it, incinerated in a ball of flame like a meteor? We
will lose the chance to obtain more science and discoveries? Remember,
Hubble can see all around it in space as it orbits the earth - in
every conceivable direction.
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- Let's all bug the heck out of NASA about
this travesty of science. Don't let them make you think that ground-based
telescope technology has made Hubble "obsolete." We have yet
to see images from the ground-based astronomy community better than
those from Hubble.
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- If you haven't watched the astounding
collection of images at http://hytaipan.home.comcast.net/hubble640.html you should
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- do so.
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- Ted Twietmeyer
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- His www.bookonmars.info provides details
about a startling and revealing book about artifacts imaged by the
rovers close to the cameras on Mars, and not from orbit. He is
a former defense and NASA contractor, engineer, advanced science researcher and
inventor and holds a patent on parallel optical backplane technology.
He is also a frequent contributor to rense.com, with a 20 year background
in aerospace, defense systems and instrumentation. Mr. Twietmeyer is also
researching science topics largely ignored by mainstream science, and all
are designed for the public to participate in at http://www.data4science.net.
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