Oh, man, I really wish it worked that way. But no. You really can’t just stamp out another Hubble with the simple assembly line blueprints folks seem to think exists, and even if you could, it definitely wouldn’t be a fraction of the price of the original. It’s been forty years — it’d be a huge engineering effort.
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I have now seen one! I was driving around near the MN Zoo and there it was. This one had no wrap — bare metal. Clean and pristine, except a lotta fingerprints around the back gate. Reminded me I need to clean my refrigerator. :-D
I’ve seen one now! In Apple Valley. I wonder if they’ll still look as good in February.
I’m not sure getting snarky is going to help him much in persuading NASA that he knows what he’s doing. What he needs to do is prove his team can execute the mission without making things worse. There are a huge number of unknowns, and refusing to acknowledge that there’s a very real chance of breaking Hubble entirely…
Adjusted for inflation, Hubble cost about $12 billion before the servicing missions were added to the price tag. So no, it would not be trivial financing, even for him. Heck, it wasn’t trivial financing even for NASA.
Well, it’s not quite like it sounds. His company, Draken, owns the jets, and it gets paid a lot of money by the DoD to fly them as adversaries for training exercises. If he lost those contracts, I guarantee he’d have to sell a lot of them off. They’re not cheap to operate and maintain.
It needs some herbs. I have some elderflower syrup I made a couple of weeks ago. And a sprig of mint. Maybe put all that over some crushed ice, put it in a chilled tumbler, and sit out on the patio with it..... Now THAT’S a remedy I can go for!
That is a super cool picture. :-) Normally, that sort of thing is reserved for spy agencies! We’re moving into a new paradigm, with stuff like this becoming commercially available.
Smacking it with a Bible between dilutions helps.*
They went back to get some work done. They’re on the clock. They’ve both flown willingly in Soyuz before -- that thing’s actually killed people before, and made some pretty determined attempts since then.
Acid/base woo is some of the stupidest and yet persistent woo out there. I think this is because it’s so easy to produce test results that look impressive and because the “treatments” are both inexpensive and generally harmless (except insofar as they delay pursuit of effective treatments — there are people telling…
The interesting thing is that the debris we’re hearing about has pretty much all been Dragon trunk sections. SpaceX has been swearing those burn up completely, perhaps to avoid having to devise a reentry profile that aims them at the ocean. But it seems this may not be the case.
Different incident, actually. The Gimli Glider ran out of fuel over land and glided to a landing at an airfield one of the pilots coincidentally happened to be familiar with, having been stationed there in his RCAF days. What he didn’t know was that the runway he was aiming at had been decomissioned and was now used…
We had Chinese takeout for dinner last night. There was absolutely a wonton massacre.
Well, now that’s stuck in my head. Thanks for nothing.
I probably just don’t drive around enough. I live in the south Metro, and the 494 construction has me avoiding the freeways as much as possible. I do hope to see one, though, because I am saving up my Space Mutiny David Ryder names for when I see one, since they (extremely vaguely) resemble the stupid Enforcer floor…
I’m in that swath of the country and my asthma is really acting up. I just went up to a higher dose of my steroid inhaler not long ago (trying to find the right dose of this new inhaler since the bastards who made Flovent decided to pull it from the market for completely stupid reasons) and it got my asthma under…
Well, per the headline, my dad once grilled weenies over the engine block of a rental car while we were vacationing in Hawaii. We were in Volcanoes National Park at the time. I was four, so I don’t remember much of that trip, but I remember that. I also remember tripping on lava and tearing up my leg, watching hula…
Yep, that’s before homogenization; the tiny nozzles basically break up fat into really tiny bits so the milk turns into a colloid instead of separating into cream and whey and looking all nasty. Interesting to know how much of a difference that made to the taste.