At 12:10 PM 5/26/2012, Chemical Engineer wrote:
Jed,
I suggest you remove all of those Hubble screen savers and
wallpapers off your PC. It cost way too much to produce them
On Saturday, May 26, 2012, Chemical Engineer wrote:
If that was the only accomplishment of the shuttle i might give your
argument some weight
On Saturday, May 26, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Randy Wuller <[email protected]> wrote:
You could have replaced the Hubble many time over for the cost of
the Shuttle and its operation.
That is true. See the book "Hubble Wars." The cost of the Shuttle
mission to repair the Hubble was greater than the cost of launching
a new Hubble would have been. I regret to say this, but it was a
publicity stunt.
Brilliant. The Shuttle program was justified because it produced cool
screen-savers? Why should we toss out those expensive screen-savers?
We should keep them as reminders of how billions of dollars can be
spent to produce some great images.
Now, for the future, can we produce even better images with an
improve space telescope, launched far more cheaply?
I bet there are some great images of tokamaks and other hot fusion
machines. I've seen some great steampunk stuff from the Soviet
program. Big Old Machines, rusting away. This means?
Big Science is almost intrinsically a problem, it requires massive
bureaucracy, which is readily self-preserving, just not surprising.
Science is now tending toward much smarter investments, and to
distributed intelligence.
