NASA restores some astrobiology funds? |
NASA restores some astrobiology funds? |
Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Mar 28 2006, 01:41 AM
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1106
No word on HOW he'll restore them, though -- or how much. |
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May 12 2006, 04:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
My two cents: I can easily recall when mainstream astronomy considered
searching for exoplanets as too difficult and not a top priority. Some even questioned if other planets even existed in any significant amounts. That certainly changed in 1992 and especially in 1995, didn't it? The same will happen with astrobiology when the first discovery is made. But we can't find them if we don't search for them, can we? What Griffin Thinks - and the Academy Says - About Astrobiology http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/05/...griffin_th.html Outspoken: Mike Griffin on the NASA budget, Nature: "Deep cuts to NASA astrobiology - Griffin: "I did think astrobiology was less important than traditional space science. It had less intrinsic subject matter to it, and was less advanced. If the community rises up and says it should be funded, we'll rethink it." NASA Lacks Resources Needed to Sustain Vigorous Science Program, National Academy of Sciences: "The decadal surveys for astrophysics and for solar system exploration both embraced astrobiology as a key component of their programs, with the questions encompassed by astrobiology serving as overarching themes for the programs as a whole." -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 15 2006, 08:41 PM
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My two cents: I can easily recall when mainstream astronomy considered searching for exoplanets as too difficult and not a top priority. Some even questioned if other planets even existed in any significant amounts. That certainly changed in 1992 and especially in 1995, didn't it? Yes, but the emphasis changed because of better telescopes, computerized search routines, and adaptive optics. Which is another reason IAOTO that in the future, credit for many of these types of discoveries should and will go to devices, probes and canned programs rather than the individual who happens to be at the helm on the day of discovery...and of course, which ever PI sticks his foot in the door the loudest |
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