Originally posted by: GeoffS
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/hubble.telescope.ap/index.html
I guess if we're going to the moon again and Mars, the money's gotta come from somewhere...
Originally posted by: networkman
/radio whiskey tango foxtrot
I heard they >>>????don't????<<<< even have the plans to make another saturn 5 rocket.
Originally posted by: networkman
/radio whiskey tango foxtrot
Nice ideaOriginally posted by: mastertech01
I think we should send the shuttle up and retrofit Hubble with rockets and send it on a one way voyage into deep space, taking all the high res photos we can as far as it will reach.
Originally posted by: networkman
Nah.. just something I saw in another thread.
But I do agree with your idea -- let's send up some kind of robotic space craft to lock onto Hubble and push it off into deep space - maybe include some kind of radio-trasmitter on the probe to send signals back to Earth(think along the lines of Pioneer and Voyager); this way it has a 3-fold purpose: a) we continue to get data and pictures of stuff "out there", b) according to my HS physics, "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion", so as long as it's not snagged by another planet's gravity, it'll continue to float thru space(which is alot safer than trying to control re-entry into our atmosphere), and c) if we send it off into deep-space, we can always hope some other civilization finds it and considers returning it -- in person. :Q
If nothing else, perhaps(after we're long gone, or hopefully long before then) it'll get captured by the gravity of some other planet's intelligent species and at least then THEY would have proof that they aren't (or haven't been) alone in the universe!
Originally posted by: networkman
Nah.. just something I saw in another thread.
But I do agree with your idea -- let's send up some kind of robotic space craft to lock onto Hubble and push it off into deep space - maybe include some kind of radio-trasmitter on the probe to send signals back to Earth(think along the lines of Pioneer and Voyager); this way it has a 3-fold purpose: a) we continue to get data and pictures of stuff "out there", b) according to my HS physics, "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion", so as long as it's not snagged by another planet's gravity, it'll continue to float thru space(which is alot safer than trying to control re-entry into our atmosphere), and c) if we send it off into deep-space, we can always hope some other civilization finds it and considers returning it -- in person. :Q
If nothing else, perhaps(after we're long gone, or hopefully long before then) it'll get captured by the gravity of some other planet's intelligent species and at least then THEY would have proof that they aren't (or haven't been) alone in the universe!