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OT: End of Hubble :(

It was to be retired around 2010 anyway...
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So it's life falls short a few years. Plus there is a better telescope in the works.:camera:
 
Clipped from the article, "NASA was already planning to replace the Hubble with a new, improved version, called the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2011."
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/hubble.telescope.ap/index.html

I guess if we're going to the moon again and Mars, the money's gotta come from somewhere... 🙁
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What $$??? What is bush ganna pull it out of his ass? This guy is dreaming... It's all a buch of BS.

It is a nice idea tho. We already spent our wad on the so called "war"... It still isn't over with yet. We are so far in debt now ... I heard they don't even have the plans to make another saturn 5 rocket. Oh did you think we can just make another one? Doubt it. I don't think we have 10 trillion sitting around to send another human to the moon. Maybe if we didn't take a vacation in Iraq. Sigh...

Altho, if you really think he is going to do what he says Vote for him again. Since that is what he want's you to "think"... Even if we did pull everyone out of Iraq now there still wouldn't be any funds left to do this. So, we might as well enjoy our little tour over there since it's gonna be awhile.



 
I think we should send the shuttle up and retrofit Hubble with rockets and send it on a one way voyage into deep space, taking all the high res photos we can as far as it will reach.
 
I heard they >>>????don't????<<<< even have the plans to make another saturn 5 rocket.
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I'll be there if it happens, no doubt


One thing that you must remember is that much of this new moon programs funding will be comming form the military, not so sure about mars.
 
Nah.. just something I saw in another thread. 🙂

But I do agree with your idea -- let's send up some kind of robotic space craft to lock onto Hubble and push it off into deep space - maybe include some kind of radio-trasmitter on the probe to send signals back to Earth(think along the lines of Pioneer and Voyager); this way it has a 3-fold purpose: a) we continue to get data and pictures of stuff "out there", b) according to my HS physics, "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion", so as long as it's not snagged by another planet's gravity, it'll continue to float thru space(which is alot safer than trying to control re-entry into our atmosphere), and c) if we send it off into deep-space, we can always hope some other civilization finds it and considers returning it -- in person. :Q 😉

If nothing else, perhaps(after we're long gone, or hopefully long before then) it'll get captured by the gravity of some other planet's intelligent species and at least then THEY would have proof that they aren't (or haven't been) alone in the universe! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: mastertech01
I think we should send the shuttle up and retrofit Hubble with rockets and send it on a one way voyage into deep space, taking all the high res photos we can as far as it will reach.
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Nice idea😉

It is a shame that hubble will die early🙁
And yeah I was wondering where the extra $$$$'s would come from for these new missions...........
 
Originally posted by: networkman
Nah.. just something I saw in another thread. 🙂

But I do agree with your idea -- let's send up some kind of robotic space craft to lock onto Hubble and push it off into deep space - maybe include some kind of radio-trasmitter on the probe to send signals back to Earth(think along the lines of Pioneer and Voyager); this way it has a 3-fold purpose: a) we continue to get data and pictures of stuff "out there", b) according to my HS physics, "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion", so as long as it's not snagged by another planet's gravity, it'll continue to float thru space(which is alot safer than trying to control re-entry into our atmosphere), and c) if we send it off into deep-space, we can always hope some other civilization finds it and considers returning it -- in person. :Q 😉

If nothing else, perhaps(after we're long gone, or hopefully long before then) it'll get captured by the gravity of some other planet's intelligent species and at least then THEY would have proof that they aren't (or haven't been) alone in the universe! 🙂
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Agreed. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: networkman
Nah.. just something I saw in another thread. 🙂

But I do agree with your idea -- let's send up some kind of robotic space craft to lock onto Hubble and push it off into deep space - maybe include some kind of radio-trasmitter on the probe to send signals back to Earth(think along the lines of Pioneer and Voyager); this way it has a 3-fold purpose: a) we continue to get data and pictures of stuff "out there", b) according to my HS physics, "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion", so as long as it's not snagged by another planet's gravity, it'll continue to float thru space(which is alot safer than trying to control re-entry into our atmosphere), and c) if we send it off into deep-space, we can always hope some other civilization finds it and considers returning it -- in person. :Q 😉

If nothing else, perhaps(after we're long gone, or hopefully long before then) it'll get captured by the gravity of some other planet's intelligent species and at least then THEY would have proof that they aren't (or haven't been) alone in the universe! 🙂
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Also agree! 😀

And did I see a typo in that AP article...???

"Astronomers have found that galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed much earlier that theorists had expected."
 
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