Re: Death Sentence for the Hubble?
From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:56:29 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:45:27 GMT, in a place far, far away, Fred J.
McCall <fmccall@earthlink.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
>:I'm only saying that it's easy relative to how difficult some think
>:it, not in any absolute sense.
>
>Well, that's the first time THAT has come out.
No, it isn't. You haven't been paying attention.
>:>Was ISS 'easy'?
>:>It largely seems so, by your definition, and yet it is an order of
>:>magnitude over the original budget estimates and still seems well
>:>short of the originally discussed capabilities.
>:
>:That has nothing to do with the intrinsic ease or difficulty of
>:building space stations.
>
>No? Then where is all the money going? It's easy, remember? Why did
>it have to keep adding budget and schedule?
Because the purpose of the program was not to build a space station.
The purpose of the program was to provide full employment in certain
congressional districts.
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