...when we are talking billions of dead presidents.
Quote...when we are talking billions of dead presidents.Ya gotta do a bit more research there, mate. We've only got some forty dead presidents....Moving right along....
I assume he's talking about images of dead presidents that are on US dollars, as in billions of dollars mate!
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/darpas-new-membrane-optics-spy-satellite-could-capture-video-earth-22000-feetFor that money, you could potentially have a whole constellation of on orbit.I mean look at the development costs, tens of millions compared to billionsI don't know how someone can justify that.
Quote from: krytek on 12/24/2011 09:53 pmhttp://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/darpas-new-membrane-optics-spy-satellite-could-capture-video-earth-22000-feetFor that money, you could potentially have a whole constellation of on orbit.I mean look at the development costs, tens of millions compared to billionsI don't know how someone can justify that.The linked article says that the technology for membrane imaging is being developed by Ball Aerospace. Ball has also been working on Webb, building the mirror segments, which are now compete, and the system that will align them into the single aperture telescope in deep space. That technology is nearly ready for launching. The membrane imaging is very, very far from that. And the costs stated are just to get the work started. It's too early to jump to the new shiny thing.(Those statements have nothing to do with my opinion of continued spending, ~$4B?, on JWST.)
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If the astrophysics community were given the choice between spending X billion dollars on finishing the JWST versus spending the same amount of money on other astrophysics projects, which would they choose?
And not just SMD.. Bolden's announcement was that all the agency "benefits" from JWST and needs to pay their "fair share". They're literally rewarding failure here.
The TEA Party in Space was correct when many here thought they were wrong. This isn't TPIS saying this... this is Aviation Week:NASA will take only an $89 million cut in its topline spending request for fiscal 2013 compared to this year’s operating plan, sources said Friday, but the $17.711 billion NASA budget proposal due out Feb. 13 will axe the joint effort with Europe to return samples from Mars, to pay for development overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope.http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news%2Fawx%2F2012%2F02%2F10%2Fawx_02_10_2012_p0-423848.xml&headline=NASANASA is in for a very rude awakening once those who pay no attention to NASA suddenly start focusing on the horrible track record of JWST, CxP, ect. NASA is only .42 of the budget.VRRE327