[extropy-chat] Saving the Hubble

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> 
> Larry Klaes posted an interesting thought on the Europa list.
> 
> His idea was rather than to bring down the Hubble (at a cost
> of $300M) to give it to the Chinese.  I'd expand on that
> idea -- what about the Europeans, Russia, China or Japan?

I doubt the feds would go for this. Supposedly a few of the more recent
KH spy sats have extremely similar architecture to the Hubble. If a
Hubble can image a galaxy 13 billion light years away, think about what
one with slightly different optics can see here on earth.

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus