KennyR wrote:
Bring the whole thing down and build an even bigger one, a huge array of telescopic mirrors and lenses.
grunt grunt yea baby!
I remember at the time they planned the original Hubble, they were cutting features out all over the place trying to cut costs, but hell, if you're not going to get as much possible use out of the project as you concievably can, why spend the money launching it in the first place?
Meanwhile, once hubble was finally past all the original design mistakes and in operation, it was horribly mismanaged and gyroscopes wern't maintained, even though when designed they were well aware of the service life of the gyroscopes. They even ignored opportunities to replace the gyro's when they were there servicing other things anyway! From 1997-2000, a gyroscope has failed every year, and all were already at the end of their service life in 1997, when they could have easily been replaced.
Nasa built a car that should have been recalled, never changed the oil, fixed the radiator with duct tape, and ran it into the ground. Some of this was due to an economy car budget, some was due to incompetance, whatever the reasons, we need a new car.
If we're being watched by intelligent life somewhere, we've probably been labeled as galactic rednecks.
