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To: Nitro; RightWhale; Spktyr; RadioAstronomer; Dashing Dasher
Why would a quick, put all the talk to bed photo be such a problem?

1. changing the orientation of the HST requires expenditure of thruster fuel. NASA *knows* we landed, so there is no pressing research need justifying the expense of reorientation thruster burns. Why would NASA bother to use this expensive-to-resupply material just to satisfy idiots?

2. Even if they DID reorient the HST and take the requested pics, do you really think the idiots would cease jabbering? Hell, no! They'd just start screaming about how the image was computer-generated to perpetuate the hoax.

So, basically, the idiots' calls to use the Hubble to scope the landing sites is spurious.
Factor in the fact that these sites can be scoped from the ground using privately owned reflector arrays, and have been scoped, and the trash left over from the landings HAS been spotted using such means... one is left to conclude that the idiots will NEVER shut up until they are themselves sent out of a lander onto the sites in question.

preferably: without a space suit.

121 posted on 10/24/2005 7:09:52 PM PDT by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Poetic.

Thanks.


124 posted on 10/24/2005 7:38:38 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.)
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