TKID2 is back on his Hubble rant. As reported earlier, the White House has decided to scrap the Hubble. The reason, NASA doesn't have room in its budget for the $1 billion repair mission price tag, due to its other agenda items, including a program designed to land a man on Mars.
Really, who gives a s%^& about Mars? I think we all saw Total Recall. There's nothing there. I think Bush is hoping we can land a man up there who can snap some pics of that broad with three teats. And did you see what happened when Arnold S. took off his helmet? His face exploded. I also saw Mission to Mars, Red Planet, Ghosts of Mars, When Mars Attacks, Women are From Venus, Men are from Mars, etc. and it always ended bad for everyone involved. It is ludicrous for Bush to say a Hubble rescue mission is dangerous, but sending a crew of astronauts to Mars to search for fossils, only to be murdered by a possessed robot with a sassy attitude is acceptable.
I wouldn't volunteer for a Mission to Mars, despite the danger. It would take months if not years to get there. And when you are there, its like you landed in Death Valley. Same thing with the moon.
Bush is also talking all this smack about going "beyond Mars." Yet he refuses to provide funding for subatomic particle research critical to developing the propulsion systems for space travel. I visited the Fermi National Laboratory several months ago to view its particle accelerators. That place was a rat hole. I've seen better accomodations at a Daytona Beach motor lodge during bike week.
And to rub salt in our collective wounds, Bushie has just announced that he will seek about $80 billion in new funding for military operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan. Apparently we need the money to hire Hessians to fight our battles, now that the supply of 50 yr old Wisconsin National Guardsmen has dried up.
As for Hubble vs. killing some more Iraqis, I for one would prefer to see photos of the Big Bang rather than an Iraqi Prison gang bang.
Post script: The real reason Bush is cutting funding for Hubble is because it is getting close to discovering something his mind can not comprehend. Life beyond earth. His Texan-centric Conservative Christian ethos would come crumbling down if Hubble or the SETI project or some other instrument of pure human curiosity detected messages from beyond our solar system.
