Saturday, February 12, 2005

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY BOARD DECRIES HUBBLE DEMISE RESULTING FROM PRESIDENT'S BUDGET





"The Executive Board of the American Physical Society (APS) believes that servicing the Hubble should be one of NASA's highest priorities and concurs with the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope that Hubble is 'the most powerful optical astronomical facility in history,' that 'has clearly been one of NASA's most noticed science projects, garnering sustained public attention over its entire lifetime.' In accord with a recent American Astronomical Society statement, the APS Board believes that Hubble's scientific potential is as promising as the remarkable past record it has achieved. It further believes that this potential provides a compelling, persuasive reason for adding money to the NASA science program to carry out the necessary servicing mission, without which, according to the NRC report, Hubble will cease science operations in mid to late 2007."

Do I really need to explain what's going on here? While Bush is perceived as a "space president" because of his so-called "Moon-Mars Initiative," he doesn't really give a fuck about exploring our universe; if anything, images of far-flung nebulae and exploded stars from the Hubble make his Fundamentalist cohorts uneasy because they're in obvious conflict with the six-day biblical Creation model.

No, Bush has set his beady eyes on the stars because he wants to populate the sky with guns. This lack of vision is beyond limited -- it's psychopathic.



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