Save the Hubble 02/20/2004 messages
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Save the Hubble Inspiring Message of the Day:
"Good show Fernando. Best of luck to you and Hubble." Keep it up, Anupam.
(Thank you Anupam! The show must go on!S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble Idea of the Day:
"Hi,this is the point of view of a salesman:So NASA has already given up on Hubble because - let's face it - money. We all had that problem before and some were simply solved by selling properties to private companies who could then be in charge of things and for that do some advertising.Might sound / look funny to see e.g. the "Coca-Cola-Hubble-Telescope" but, hell, it would at least still be there! Hey Hubble: Live long and prosper! Verdex. (Well, it would surely go along with some of their slogans: 1905: "Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains, 1939: "Coca-Cola goes along", 1949: "Coca-Cola ... along the highway to anywhere",1975: "Look up America", 1976: "coke adds life", 1990: "Can't beat the Real Thing". I'm sending them a mail, just in case. Thank you Verdex! S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble Reason of the Day:
"The reasons given for the canceling of the final Hubble service mission is empty. Space Flight is risky, EVA is risky, the exploration of America was risky, and getting on the freeway is even riskier. Should we stay at home? That's risky also! The cost to put something in orbit is high. The expense to keep it there is to protect our investment. An investment in knowledge is never a waste. We must explore, we must dare to dream, and then we must make those dreams reality.Noland Talley. PS:(5 years as WETF/JSC Safety Diver, 5 years Space Station "Freedom" support. Inclusive of, Solar Max, Palpa\West Star Retrieval, GRO (Compton) EVA evaluation, ASEM, CETA, and etc). I spent 12 of the most fulfilling years in my life at NASA\JSC. (Thank you Noland, but I do wonder: what does a WETF/JSC Safety Diver acctualy drives!? S.t.H.)
Noland kindly answered:
"The WETF is the Weightless Environment Training Facility at the Johnson Space Center (I was a safety diver for 5 years supporting astronaut crew training for extravehicular activities (EVA) for planned activities and contingency activities)."(Thank you again Noland)
Save the Hubble Best Political Challenge of the Day:
(this IS a democratic site!)
"The cost is like what we blew on ammo in Iraq last week. Or on gambling *yesterday*. Hell, I'd go myself. Notice how everything is being thrown over for ridiculous grandstanding which everyone knows will not work? Mars? It's too soon, because deep-space propulsion is still very immature. Only when one can cut across in a month at the very most, will it be time for Mars--which means not till 2050. As for this "danger" bullshit: oh hell, everything worth doing is dangerous. NASA should stop being such chickenshits about human life."Tatiana Covington (We respect the right to free speech but do not agree with the "bull"and "chicken" parts of the message. S.t.H)
Save the Hubble Astropoetical Message of the Day:
"POETIC BI-DEDICATION"
The Dream of the Hubble Telescope
~by Dan Mitrut~
Alone on his own orbit,
he refuses
the last space obsessions.
A thought coagulates alive
on monitors,
pushed by a new power:
a solar system
of soul and flower.
The Hubble Telescope of Our Dream
~by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe~
Dear space friend,
nobody asked
the deep sky objects
how much they like
to be remarked by you.
So,
our heavenly correspondent,
unveiling for us
the celestial carnival:
BE ETERNAL!
English translations from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe; the two astropoets are counselors of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM (Thank you again Andrei. S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble Mystical Quote of the Day:
"I am a Christian who loves to see the pictures Hubble sends us. I choose to believe God created those beautiful sights, and as to where I'll spend my time when I get to heaven--well, those stars and nebulae and
galaxies are in heaven." Judy R., Brookfield, (Thank you Judy, hope you will meet me there! S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble Reason Not to of the Day:
(this really IS a democratic site!)
"Interesting, but were you aware that the decision to stop servicing the Hubble will only hasten it's planned demise by 2 years or so? The Hubble was intended to have an End-Of-Life in the 2010-11 range, and this will reduce that to 2008 give or take. And it's only one mission that got cancelled! Scheduled for 2006! Everybody sure is getting excited about it for some reason... We are already working on a replacement that will work much more effectively than Hubble, and hopefully won't be crippled by design flaws and shoddy manufacturing.
"In a world of political correctness, and cults of denial, the truth is a beautiful thing. And though I offer it like a gentleman, if I sense resistance, I will bend you over."Ted Nugent. Dave Evans (Just to remind that Hubble's replacement, James Webb Space Telescope, won't "see" in visible light, only in infrared. S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble (err) Unusual Idea of the Day:
" .(...) The estimate that there is a 1 in 700 chance of Hubble hurting somebody is so small that NASA could better spend the money for third world childhood vaccines and save thousands of children from early death. A shuttle mission to Hubble will be the safest mission yet flown due to the safety measures that are being adopted. If NASA really wants to go crazy on reducing risks they can send up two astronauts in the shuttle with a Gemini capsule out of a museum. Refurbish the Gemini, put it in the cargo bay, and hop in the capsule at reentry time if the shuttles heat shield is damaged beyond repair. Karl Geiger (Err, Gemini capsule you said? Well, it's an idea, what the heck!. S.t.H.)
Save the Hubble Literary Quote of the Day:
"The Hubble vision provides a wholly new, universal and cosmological point of view. In its incredible time-depth and resolution, it carries us well beyond the ordinary mind's space-time assumptions into something akin to the original timeless and formless ground of being. The Hubble Space Telescope takes us back to the ultimate genesis among nurseries of stars and to farflung superclusters as common as the grains of Martian sand. In a sense the Hubble vision is a mystical, spiritual beholding, which cannot help but lead us into an exploration of the greater cosmos, without and within." Peter Gold, in: Standoff on the Sands of Mars: Spirit Rover Meets the Martian God of War. (Read whole essay here or check Selected Links below. Thank you Peter! S.t.H.)
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