X-Message-Number: 23904 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:00:04 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: [off topic] Save Hubble Space Telescope I know this is way off topic but I hope you all will forgive me. However, we do need to support good science wherever it is because in the end it all supports our trek to the future. O'Keefe of NASA made a unilateral decision to stop servicing the space telescope and allow its orbit to decay and come to Earth with unknown consequences. His singular decision was made without any oversight, public discussion or input from leading scientists. The Hubble is not an agingand obsolete telescope past its useful life. It is in it's prime and is still producing excellent content for discovery and analysis of the universe even reaching as far back in time to observe the development of the universe a scant 200 million years from the big bang. Imagine what could be done if another couple of Hubble type scopes were placed in space and linked together in a ELA, [extremely large array] several hundred or even a thousand miles apart all viewing the same exact position in space and like ground based VLA's enhancing image quality and distance reach. Let O'Keefe and the current anti science administration know this is a bad decision and that the real owners of the Hubble, the shuttle and NASA are unhappy about not being involved in the decision. Go here to sign a petition that is growing by hundreds every day. http://www.savethehubble.org/petition.jsp James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org Methuselah Foundation http://www.methuselahfoundation.org Methuselah Mouse Prize http://www.methuselahmouse.org [Give $$$ for life!] World Transhumanist Association http://www.transhumanism.org/ Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org Nat. Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org Act For Change http://www.actforchange.org People for American Way http://www.pfaw.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23904