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One effect of the gov't shutdown: no APOD.

One effect of the gov't shutdown: no APOD.

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Apod down for the count. No new Hubble pics. Science gets screwed again.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Apod down for the count. No new Hubble pics. Science gets screwed again.
America should be justifiably proud of NASA - this is humiliating.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
America should be justifiably proud of NASA - this is humiliating.
Yeah, for sure. I worked for 4 years in Israel and had a good buddy there, we are both hams and had a good bit in common, he worked for Intel in Jerusalem and that was where I was assigned as an outside contractor for Varian, my field being ion implanters and his field was instrumentation calibration.

So I remember him saying how awesome Hubble was, he said, you guys can spend over a billion dollars on ONE telescope and that is almost our entire budget! Not quite but Israel would be very hard pressed to spend a billion dollars on ANY one project.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Yeah, for sure. I worked for 4 years in Israel and had a good buddy there, we are both hams and had a good bit in common, he worked for Intel in Jerusalem and that was where I was assigned as an outside contractor for Varian, my field being ion implanters and his field was instrumentation calibration.

So I remember him saying how awesome Hubble was, he s ...[text shortened]... ! Not quite but Israel would be very hard pressed to spend a billion dollars on ANY one project.
Think about the awesome stuff USA does despite the idiots you have!

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Think about the awesome stuff USA does despite the idiots you have!
You mean the three stooges - Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama?

http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/pelosi-reid-and-obama-the-three-stooges-of-american-energy-policy/

http://tbo.com/list/news-opinion-commentary/the-sadistic-strategy-of-barack-obama-and-harry-reid-20131006/

Washingtons 3 stooges





Thr Instructor

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Another thing the shutdown has killed: Most of the spacecraft data gathering, like Curiosity is dead in the water, that 2% they just found🙂