America Must Act Now
To Save Hubble
By Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
3-16-6
Would you take your car to the junk yard - simply because IT RAN OUT OF GAS?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NASA IS PLANNING TO DO WITH THE BILLION DOLLAR HUBBLE !
(Perhaps the title of this should be "NASA - More Money Than Brains?")
I wrote about this (and other space programs) almost one year ago, at http://www.rense.com/general65/voy.htm.
Hubble Space Telescope
With a space program that's had so many Monumental Screw-ups - can we afford to dump a first-class working instrument like Hubble?
This orbiting observatory brought us tens of thousands of images at very high resolution.
We have learned:
* To see the edge of the known universe, to a point so far that no starlight is seen past that point
* Where millions of stars are that were never known before
* That galaxies are moving away from one another, often in clusters at the edge of the universe. This was unknown before.
* Where stellar nurseries are, showing us stars in various states of formations
* How to develop new imaging technologies that can survive the rigors of orbital temperature extremes and radiation
* The galaxy is forever expanding, disproving the theory it will collapse to a point one day. This also casts doubt on the big-bang theory, too.
These are just a few of the things we have discovered that changed astronomy and physics - important facts that would never have been learned about otherwise.
The cost to simply re-fuel the spacecraft amounts to a very small part of NASA's multi-billion dollar budget. This could have been accomplished easily before the shuttle was grounded, but NASA in it's infinite "wisdom" decided otherwise. Federal deficits have reached previously unheard-of levels, and it's unlikely that anyone alive today will ever see another Hubble-type observatory launched. Now NASA's focus is on robotic exploration of our solar system.
Can we simply let Hubble be destroyed by de-orbiting it, incinerated in a ball of flame like a meteor? We will lose the chance to obtain more science and discoveries? Remember, Hubble can see all around it in space as it orbits the earth - in every conceivable direction.
Let's all bug the heck out of NASA about this travesty of science. Don't let them make you think that ground-based telescope technology has made Hubble "obsolete." We have yet to see images from the ground-based astronomy community better than those from Hubble.
If you haven't watched the astounding collection of images at http://hytaipan.home.comcast.net/hubble640.html you should
do so.
Ted Twietmeyer
His www.bookonmars.info provides details about a startling and revealing book about artifacts imaged by the rovers close to the cameras on Mars, and not from orbit. He is a former defense and NASA contractor, engineer, advanced science researcher and inventor and holds a patent on parallel optical backplane technology. He is also a frequent contributor to rense.com, with a 20 year background in aerospace, defense systems and instrumentation. Mr. Twietmeyer is also researching science topics largely ignored by mainstream science, and all are designed for the public to participate in at http://www.data4science.net.
To Save Hubble
By Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
3-16-6
Would you take your car to the junk yard - simply because IT RAN OUT OF GAS?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NASA IS PLANNING TO DO WITH THE BILLION DOLLAR HUBBLE !
(Perhaps the title of this should be "NASA - More Money Than Brains?")
I wrote about this (and other space programs) almost one year ago, at http://www.rense.com/general65/voy.htm.
Hubble Space Telescope
With a space program that's had so many Monumental Screw-ups - can we afford to dump a first-class working instrument like Hubble?
This orbiting observatory brought us tens of thousands of images at very high resolution.
We have learned:
* To see the edge of the known universe, to a point so far that no starlight is seen past that point
* Where millions of stars are that were never known before
* That galaxies are moving away from one another, often in clusters at the edge of the universe. This was unknown before.
* Where stellar nurseries are, showing us stars in various states of formations
* How to develop new imaging technologies that can survive the rigors of orbital temperature extremes and radiation
* The galaxy is forever expanding, disproving the theory it will collapse to a point one day. This also casts doubt on the big-bang theory, too.
These are just a few of the things we have discovered that changed astronomy and physics - important facts that would never have been learned about otherwise.
The cost to simply re-fuel the spacecraft amounts to a very small part of NASA's multi-billion dollar budget. This could have been accomplished easily before the shuttle was grounded, but NASA in it's infinite "wisdom" decided otherwise. Federal deficits have reached previously unheard-of levels, and it's unlikely that anyone alive today will ever see another Hubble-type observatory launched. Now NASA's focus is on robotic exploration of our solar system.
Can we simply let Hubble be destroyed by de-orbiting it, incinerated in a ball of flame like a meteor? We will lose the chance to obtain more science and discoveries? Remember, Hubble can see all around it in space as it orbits the earth - in every conceivable direction.
Let's all bug the heck out of NASA about this travesty of science. Don't let them make you think that ground-based telescope technology has made Hubble "obsolete." We have yet to see images from the ground-based astronomy community better than those from Hubble.
If you haven't watched the astounding collection of images at http://hytaipan.home.comcast.net/hubble640.html you should
do so.
Ted Twietmeyer
His www.bookonmars.info provides details about a startling and revealing book about artifacts imaged by the rovers close to the cameras on Mars, and not from orbit. He is a former defense and NASA contractor, engineer, advanced science researcher and inventor and holds a patent on parallel optical backplane technology. He is also a frequent contributor to rense.com, with a 20 year background in aerospace, defense systems and instrumentation. Mr. Twietmeyer is also researching science topics largely ignored by mainstream science, and all are designed for the public to participate in at http://www.data4science.net.
That would look good out my window. But really getting rid of a billion dollar telescope is just wrong. About 90% of that money probley comes from our taxes anyway. Seriously we are going into another great depression. We are just throwing away our money.
