And so the decline begins (?)

by **Guest** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 01:11:37

Maybe I'm making too much of it, but this decision may be one of the things that, when looked back upon, is viewed as one of the signs of the start of the end of the oil age:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6853009

PS
Not that I view it as an excess, quite the contrary, I view it as one of the few great things that the discovery of oil gave us. Too bad we couldn't be as forward thinking in all of the other arenas of life.

by **TrueKaiser** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 01:39:15

bush jr and sr have been very much agenst the space agency.

by **BabyPeanut** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 08:39:32

HST is not cost effective any more.

http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/whybuild/grbsspc.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')oday the pace of technological advances in space has slowed; future instruments in space, more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) or similar observatories operating at other wavelengths, will be very expensive and slow in coming. It has been realized worldwide that, for optical and infrared observations, new advanced mountaintop telescopes offer huge potential for future discovery, at a much smaller cost. Light grasp more than an order of magnitude larger than HST can be obtained from the ground, allowing detailed analysis of fainter, more distant sources. Moreover, taking advantage of the latest sensors and fast computers adaptive optics allows the potential of correcting atmospheric blurring and enormously improving image sharpness to a level far exceeding that of the HST. Mountaintop telescopes are entering a new golden era.

by **BabyPeanut** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 08:42:17

Space telescopes move on to infrared which is not possible to do on Earth as the atmosphere blocks low frequencies.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

by **Jack** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 09:21:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Anonymous', 'M')aybe I'm making too much of it, but this decision may be one of the things that, when looked back upon, is viewed as one of the signs of the start of the end of the oil age:

by **BabyPeanut** » Sat 22 Jan 2005, 09:38:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'I') can't help thinking that we're seeing a retreat in many areas - from road construction to the Hubble.

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