Exactly and report after report has shown that for every dollar spent on NASA there's been a $10 to $20 return. If all one can see are the dollar signs involved, you have to admit that's a pretty good return on investment.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, the new Hubble is already under construction. This would be an > unplanned addition. The NASA folks said if they got both, they could > use one to look at wide area views of the universe and the other to > really zoom in on something interesting when they find it. I believe > the term ideal was tossed about. This is in addition to different > detection capabilities that weren't designed into the current and > replacement Hubbles. > > We already have one replacement Hubble for 8.8 billion. Why not add an > entirely different system that can work in tandem with it for only 1.3 > billion more? > > That seems like a pretty good deal to me. The money can come from > striking 6 of those stupid JSFs from the order of over 2,000 expected to > be placed. The upkeep on those planes is estimated to cost well over 1 > trillion dollars over their operational lifetime. The fewer we have, > the better. 6 planes means nothing to the military, who only wants them > because they are cool new toys anyway. They would just have to make do > with those old PoS F-22s. Just one extra space telescope would mean the > world to NASA researchers. We don't even know the full contents of the > solar system yet. It is sad. > > On 6/9/2012 6:23 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: >> >> Dana you may think its OK for us to permanently live with cranial >> recto-inversion I do not. The possibilities of two nearly identical >> satellites operating at the same time opens the possibility for >> instance of a system with an aperture the size of the earth >> effectively. We've been good at detecting extremely large exo planets. >> This system would increase the resolution to detect objects the size >> of asteroids or smaller. It would be like having a new Hubble system, >> even more modern. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
