When it came to being gay in the military, the code phrase was don't ask, don't tell. With Bush, when it comes to real science, it is don't understand it, don't need it. Hence, the decision by the budget trimmers today to throw away the Hubble Space Telescope.
A White House decision to cut funding for a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and dump the observatory into a remote stretch of ocean waters at a future date is sure to incite debate in scientific, engineering and policy-making circles.Since we can't put a saddle on the Hubble and gallop it off to Mars, the solution is to add a rocket to it to dump it towards Earth.
Sources said the White House plans to scuttle Hubble is part of NASA?s 2006 budget request, with some money in the budget allocated to using a propulsion module coupled to Hubble for its safe but destructive deorbiting.I guess that they fear that scientists may discover something in deep space that will further show how unintelligent intellegent design is. And, of course, the fight to keep Hubble alive and making new discoveries is just another left-wing conspiracy led by the Democrats. Thanks to Barbara Mikulski, the Democratic Senator from Maryland, we are doing just that.
"It is essential that we have a safe and reliable servicing mission to Hubble," Mikulski said, that is consistent with the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and last month?s findings of a National Academy of Sciences panel on the Hubble issue. On Dec. 8, in the NAS final report released by the Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope, a blue-ribbon group of experts said that NASA should reinstate a space shuttle mission to refurbish the Earth-orbiting telescope. "I led the fight to add $300 million to NASA?s budget last year for a Hubble servicing mission, and I plan to lead the fight again this year. This is what the American people expect and deserve," Mikulski said in a statement.The republicans are probably saying just what does the National Academy of Sciences know about science anyway. We must instead listen to the biblical scientific experts like Dobson and Falwell. I guess they expect to find heaven on Mars. Oh and I am sure that they'll use all the money they are saving on Hubble to fund more faith-based initiatives aimed at curing all those homosexuals. Be sure to check out Space.Com's coverage of this critical issue.
