"Hubble is a spacecraft that is dying"

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I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?


martin

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:58:41 +0100, martin griffith wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?
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They could suspend military operations for a day. That'd pay for NASA
about ten times over.

Cheres!
Rich
 
In article <ab5Od.29733$Yu.13029@fed1read01>, x@y.z says...
martin griffith wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?


martin

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Sell it to the CIA - they will point it at earth in hopes of spotting
Ossama Bin Laden.
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Why? The Hubble is essentially a Keyhole pointed the other way. They
already got lots of them. ;-)

--
Keith
 
martin griffith wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?


martin

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Sell it to the CIA - they will point it at earth in hopes of spotting
Ossama Bin Laden.

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:48:05 -0800, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:
martin griffith wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?


martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Sell it to the CIA - they will point it at earth in hopes of spotting
Ossama Bin Laden.
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They couldn't find OBL if he walked into the front door of cia headquarters
and had announced his intentions a week earlier.
 
In article <uflf011nddv6fjgosbvgl1dnng60ookdos@4ax.com>,
martin griffith <martingriffithX@Xyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?
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Can China reach the HST with a Long March? If so we could out source the
job.

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I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
<kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <cud7ri$hga$3@blue.rahul.net>)
about '"Hubble is a spacecraft that is dying"', on Wed, 9 Feb 2005:

Can China reach the HST with a Long March? If so we could out source
the job.
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Does it have EVA capability? It doesn't have any manual handling or
docking. And NASA's tether supplier has had quality problems in the
past. (;-)
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:48:18 +0000 (UTC), Ken Smith <kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote:
In article <uflf011nddv6fjgosbvgl1dnng60ookdos@4ax.com>,
martin griffith <martingriffithX@Xyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244451.stm


I'm a great fan of "science", couldn't NASA sell the HST to Richard
Branson?

Can China reach the HST with a Long March? If so we could out source the
job.
Click to expand...
Any country that isn't actively killing off it's space program can reach
the HST. The thing should be sold to a country that will care for it.
 
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:15:08 +0000, the renowned John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Smith
kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote (in <cud7ri$hga$3@blue.rahul.net>)
about '"Hubble is a spacecraft that is dying"', on Wed, 9 Feb 2005:

Can China reach the HST with a Long March? If so we could out source
the job.

Does it have EVA capability? It doesn't have any manual handling or
docking. And NASA's tether supplier has had quality problems in the
past. (;-)
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They are apparently currently planning their first EVA for 2007- that
is getting close to the edge of the window for Hubble, even in
life-extension mode. The mission of the Shenzhou VI spacecraft (slated
for this fall) will be similar to V but with two astronauts and a
longer time in orbit.


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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:01:39 -0500, nutjob repukelican, Keith Williams
wrote:

In article <ab5Od.29733$Yu.13029@fed1read01>, x@y.z says...

Sell it to the CIA - they will point it at earth in hopes of spotting
Ossama Bin Laden.

Why? The Hubble is essentially a Keyhole pointed the other way. They
already got lots of them. ;-)
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Bush doesn't want to find OBL. If he does, he won't have 9/11 as the
excuse to invade Iran.
 
Bush doesn't want to find OBL. If he does, he won't have 9/11 as the
excuse to invade Iran.

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If George and Tony told the truth about the real reason for an invasion of
Iran, nobody, not even the Iranians and international oil corporations would
believe it.

Beware of such dirty tricks!
 
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