Re: Bush cancels Hubble telescope rescue mission

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:36:55 GMT

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:30:08 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
greg@see-web-page.edu (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>>>The question is whether anyone can trust Washington not to cancel JWST,
>>>or for that matter any other NASA project that actually makes sense.
>>Makes sense *to you*. Others mileage may vary.
>
>Amazingly enough, I have never seen a single editorial from any part
>of the political spectrum criticizing the Hubble Space Telescope or the
>James Webb Space Telescope. Even Rand Simberg, who consistently makes
>the point that there are people opposed to these projects, isn't one
>of those people.
>
>But as the Hubble example shows, even a succesful, popular, virtually
>unopposed project can still be a political casualty.

Of course it can, which is all a non-sequitur to this discussion. I
wasn't saying that Hubble didn't make sense. Not was I saying that
projects that make sense get cancelled and that others don't.

I'm saying that what makes sense to Greg Kuperberg is not *always*
aligned with what makes sense to others (and in fact, based on past
discussion, if there's a correlation at all, it's negative), and that
there is also no clear correlation between which projects survive and
which prosper, regardless of who they make sense to.

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