[extropy-chat] Saving the Hubble

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I think that is the key issue.  Could hubble be able to see things that its
owners might not want seen?  It could accidentally see things military
planners want to keep classified.  It may have become to dangerous to allow
to operate?
A bit far farfetched .... are their any other  supporting arguments for
this?

...Morris

Mike Lorrey wrote:

> --- "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.
>
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