Topic: Technology
NASA announced that they would be pushing 900 million clams into the rescue of the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been failing and would deteriorate by 2010. The mission to save the life of the badass camera will be a go in May 2008, and the massive overhaul would keep the big boy in orbit through 2017.
The news comes as a welcome after many Hubble repair missions were scrapped recently, and it was announced two years ago that instead of fixing it again, the money would be spent to go to Mars, something that President Bush would really like to see, most likely because he saw Mission to Mars and thought how cool it was to have Tim Robbins actually die in space.
We say good show NASA. Hubble has been too grand of a machine to just let die in the cold depths in space. It at least should be put in a large bed on Earth to slowly pass on, possibly in its sleep. And while taking oversized pictures of the crabs that are growing on its nurse's crotch.
