What poor kids need are more pictures like this. Don't complain about the Hubble telescope. A single jet fighter's cost could build and fund a school for years.

*sigh*

So very sad to see such small minds. That someone can look at images of the universe and nhot be inspired by them.

Hopefully those poor children won't end up that way. Hopefully some poor child will see these images and be inspired to do great things for humanity as a result.

If money were not spent on "wasteful" science such as this, I wonder what CountRaoul would have taught in his hypothetical school.

Sometimes its hard to see the tangible benefits of pure science, especially for things as esoteric as deep space exploration or particle physics, but the return on investment is huge because of the technology that is developed. Incredibly smart people (that work for relatively little) come up with things that end up benefiting all of us. Those pretty pictures were taken with cameras that later led to the development of MRI technology. Efficiency is the name of the game up there which has engendered technology for things as mundane as the battery in the electric drill you use in your garage. The World Wide Web interface that the internet is run on was first developed by the scientists at CERN and then just given away. Satellite technology, which Hubble was on the cutting edge of, has transformed the world. I could go on and on but the point is that dollar for dollar science spending has been the best investment ever made.

NASA is something Obama can become famous with. Now that "The Conservative Reconstruction Project" has taken off with such speed. More space will be explored for sure.

This reasoning is about as empty as it gets. Educate and elevate and fill the empty stomach before it fills with hate. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Ignorance breeds aggression, as evidenced by your post.

not if mccain crashes it, dopey.

and regardless, a jet fighter makes all future dictators clap their hands with glee at being able to exploit cultural hegemony invading their world.

WE are the dictator

A decent education can also deter dictatorships. Having a well trained, educated and informed mind does not mean that it is interested in peace. However most well-educated people do tend to seek peaceful happy lives.

ok listen, the fact is that we do not know what we can learn from the Hubble telescope, however, welcome to the world of science sir/madam, many if not most of the major scientific discoveries have been found while either in pursuit of something else or just because, for proof i reference the internet. who knows what we can learn from these pictures, however putting a camera that can look deep into space puts us in a pretty good position to find something out.

"there is no blueprint to progress" a. sorkin

most of the stuff we make breakthroughs with come from accidental or curious poking around.

if the count would like to go back to when the earth was flat, and the church burned heretics, that is fine.... but the knowledge we get from knowing color in telescope pictures with the quality resolution we have gives us a blueprint for countless aspects of our lives.

it pays for itself many times over.

is the count 'raouling' against voyager cassini, etc?

or is it just the hubble?

how about the bailout? it cost WAY more than hubble