RE: James Webb space telescope axed
July 12, 2011 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2011 at 5:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 12, 2011 at 4:39 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(July 10, 2011 at 8:09 pm)Chuck Wrote: The hugely successful Hubble space telescope is scheduled to be deorbited and burn up in the atmosphere in 2012. It's role was to have been taken by the new and much more powerful James Webb Space telescope. But the Republicans, in the interest of protecting the wealthy from suffering the indignity of doing their part, have gloriously exterminated another nefarious tool of collective human progress.
James Webb space telescope have been Defunded by the house.
I'm not surprised.The cost went from an initial estimate of $1.6bn (£996m) to more than $6.5bn (£4bn) .
How the hell you do spend a billion let alone four on anything? Those must be some really f***ing expensive paperclips Nasa needs.
I find it easy to spend four billion on myself. Gold is very malleable metal, ideal for making the superior, unbreakable paperclips that I need.
