[Cincinatus]

Because the first time this idea was floated last summer, you could have recorded the howls and yowls of protest from the astronomers and sold it to scare animals off your property.

But assuming for a moment that I have no basis for such a belief, are you telling me the astronomical community is willing to absorb the costs of a Shuttle Hubble servicing mission?

[RadioAstronomer]

But assuming for a moment that I have no basis for such a belief, are you telling me the astronomical community is willing to absorb the costs of a Shuttle Hubble servicing mission?

No. That should be one of the regularly scheduled shuttle flights. I still don't understand this "Hate Hubble" mantra that seems to fly thru FR.

Also that is not what you stated earlier and I quote:

"The list evaporates to zero if you tell them that the servicing mission costs will come out of the astronomy portion of the NASA budget."

The list is made up of all kinds of scientists that are not connected to NASA such as universities.