Men on Mars

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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
TW, isn't there a replacement for the Hubble scheduled?

The Webb telescope will not be ready until sometime after 2010. Also it will not do same as Hubble. One hope was to have both Hubble and Webb working in concert. But an MBA has now destroyed that hope with his silly political agenda. NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom

Robots cannot improvise? Who is still living in the early 20th Century? Then I guess that Martian rover is still stuck on the platform - obstructed by air bags. Then I guess those Honda robots do not play soccer.

Man on scene is really not necessary since man still needs his robots. Man cannot see the many frequencies that his robots see. Man cannot measure fundamental science paramaters without his robots. Called scientific equipment when in the man's hand. Man not longer does so much advanced work - such as the human genome project made possbile only because robots did the work.

Therein lies science. The person who knows how best explore space is the scientists - not some self serving politiician who never even ran a successful company.

In the meantime, Hubble is clearly far more useful than a man 'scratching for water' on the moon. And yet we would kill an inexpensive and useful tool to make a president look good? MBAs. The Hubble has no value. It was depreciated on the spread sheets. Better to write it off. MBA thinking from a politician. Someone whose presidency started with "if it was from Clinton, then it must be wrong". So much brainpower would even destroy expensive space craft - only for the greater glory of that president. No wonder we are also wasting $billions on another anti-ballistic missile system that will not work.