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Potential first interstellar spacecrafts' programs to be cut

BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.spacedaily.com/news/voyager1-05a.html[/url]

Stopping these programs now would be an act of the utmost foolishness. The Voyager probes in particular are in a position to tell us a lot of new stuff about the very edge of our solar system, not to mention what it's really like out there in interstellar space.

Comments

  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Grrr.... :mad: <!-- purple -->
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    cats out of the bag mate. :D

    And well, this kinda sucks.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Yeah...
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    I have a question..

    WHY THE DOES IT COST 4 MILLON BUCKS TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO VOYAGER!?

    and thats not any infrasturcture cost like say, kicking power to the transmitters which, I bet is pretty expensive, thats all administrative cost.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Firstly, beauracracy. This is NASA we're talking about after all. There are probably a small number of scientists and a huge number of managers involved.

    Secondly, getting time on the deep space network is almost certainly expensive, and with the strength of the signals from the voyager probes being what they probably are, only the best radio dishes would be useful.
  • sleepy_shadowsleepy_shadow Ranger
    As they said... telescope time and data analysis... but I would somehow hope that telescope time wouln't cost *that* much... and that perhaps, data could be simply recorded for future analysis.
  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    If NASA could cut some of the beurocratic mess they could keep their programs
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i]
    [B]If NASA could cut some of the beurocratic mess they could keep their programs [/B][/QUOTE]Shouldn't that be done to everything connected to goverments?
    Governments are kinda effective in increasing bureaucracy so that in the end they don't accomplish anything... or only something which doesn't benefit ordinary people.
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