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NASA approves Hubble revival plan

msnbc.msn.com — NASA is going ahead with a plan to restart the flow of science data from the Hubble Space Telescope by routing around circuitry that failed a little more than two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.

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  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -2/+19"Put the telescope into safe mode." I wonder if it's running Windows 95.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/15/2008, -0/+15Uh, they are.
  • duster805, on 10/15/2008, -1/+16Um...how about this analogy:
    ME: "my car needs a new radiator and I'm pretty broke right now, having had to pay my ex-wife (700 billion) in alimony"

    you: "Why not just buy a new luxury car?"
  • cyrusuncc, on 10/15/2008, -0/+11I guess they have to press F8 when booting
  • ShogunWarPig, on 10/15/2008, -1/+11Woot! More awesome desktop wallpaper!
  • majortom1981, on 10/15/2008, -0/+9I don't know where you have been but they do have plans to do just that but not till atleast 2013. The scientists want to keep hubble running till the new one gets put up.

    By the way the new one will be farther out into space then hubble currently is.
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -0/+8Because of budget constraints, ingenious engineer hacking is what keeps the space program running.
  • majortom1981, on 10/15/2008, -1/+8Argh another one. You do realsie they are replacing it but its not until 2013. Hubble is being repaired so that it can last till the new one goes up.

    Look up The James Webb Space Telescope

    http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
  • dajuggernaut, on 10/15/2008, -0/+7in other news:
    10 million APOD enthusiast are simultaneously rubbing one out.
  • Paulorific, on 10/15/2008, -1/+7Moon telescope. Win win.
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -0/+6Beats the 64 KB of ram of the originally-planned C64 Hubble.
  • majortom1981, on 10/15/2008, -0/+6http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

    go there. thats the replacement. They are trying to get hubble to last till 2013 when the new one goes up.
  • drlha, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5I want you to go to Mars too.
  • CoreyTamas, on 10/15/2008, -1/+6Nothing like caps and a few exclamation points to make yourself come across as smart.
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -1/+6Yeah, because knowing what's out in the universe is gay.
  • wally40, on 10/15/2008, -0/+4Hopefully they don't have to be at the console to do that one!
  • inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+4BUT I NEVA BIN DOO MAHZ!!
  • inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+4Spend a year inside an air-tight building in Antarctica as a trial run. Only go outside once in a while wearing a bulky space suit. Might shake some of the glamor off the idea!
  • FDisk, on 10/15/2008, -0/+3Replace the damn thing with a damn phone camera.
    But no really, you go Hubble! :D
  • inactive, on 10/15/2008, -0/+3The next time you use your calculator, answer your cell phone, listen to music on your IPOD, turn on your computer or play one of your video gams stop and think of the effectiveness of NASA. Without the space program NONE OF THESE would have been possible. The work by NASA's pioneering engineers made all this technology possible.

  • doctechnical, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2OK, but first wrap a wet towel around your head, and put this thing in your left nostril. Don't worry, it's self-guiding.
  • VodkanLemons, on 10/15/2008, -2/+4i want to go to mars
  • majortom1981, on 10/15/2008, -1/+3You do realise that alot of the things we now know about space came from hubbles pictures right?
  • doctechnical, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2We'll get a space elevator right after we mine a few thousand tons of unobtainium.
  • VaporBro, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2I thought that Mike Nelson caused the Hubble to reenter the Earth's atmosphere....

    "Mike broke the Hubble, Mike broke the Hubble"
    //MST3k for the win.
  • Forky, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2Are you replying to a blocked ad or something?

    The reply button is there for a reason you know.
  • Forky, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2Yeah we should totaly give up on this space thing.
    /Sarcasm
  • inactive, on 10/15/2008, -1/+3It's amazing how many people actually employ such thinking, and then wonder why life is so unfair to them.
  • inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1Er, twice in 18 years is hardly "Always"

  • Frankyfan3, on 10/19/2008, -0/+1So, you're saying they're going to trick us all into believing the second coming has happened with laser light shows & electronic mind control... because they managed to produce tang & cell phones?
  • Jektal, on 10/15/2008, -1/+2It did.
  • raceit, on 10/15/2008, -1/+2Get your ass to Mars.
  • Mushroonaut, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1keep that eye gazing for more years to come!
  • theSn00zer, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1...and the incorrect grammar.
    there != their
  • kingfoot, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1hubble sure does have a sexy sister.
  • simplyphp, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1But mars wont get you pretty pictures.
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -1/+2I just want a space elevator already.
  • albybum, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1
    "The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is a scientific instrument for infrared astronomy, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to the present."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Infrared_Camera_ ...
  • unixfg, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1A problem, though, is that the JWST is IR. Hubble is visible light.

    There really isn't a replacement for Hubble in the works.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/15/2008, -2/+3Hubble is the best thing NASA has ever done.
  • doctechnical, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Would have been more impressive if they'd got it right the first time, instead of putting it in orbit and *then* realizing they screwed the mirror grind. Talk about an epic D'OH!
  • doctechnical, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Isn't a major part of the equation the fact that the STS (Space Shuttle) is headed for retirement soon? And whatever the due date is for it's replacement, I'll be astonished if they get it only three years late (and I bet most of NASA would be as well). So better to fix what we've got while we can, and keep getting that nice juicy data while the bureaucracy that is NASA grinds away at the shuttle replacement.
  • protodon, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Noooo, ***** the pictures! Let's do some real space stuff with that money. Pictures from light years away aren't going to get us to Mars.
  • grason1129, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1they have the technology, they can rebuild it!
  • alex7575, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1I did not realize that, if that's the case, then the answer is pretty obvious.

    Thanks.
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Oh totes, I got it. I was just extrapolating
  • Atertract, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Fortunately I have a sauroposeidon that ***** carbon nanotube. We'll have a few thousand tons in no time!
  • alex7575, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1I was actually praising the engineers, I hope that didn't come across the other way...
  • alex7575, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1Don't we have the Chandra telescope for that already?
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