Triana Mothballed

jessemckinney writes "Apparently, the US congress of last year cut the funding of this great satellite project after it was finished. It will now take millions of dollars (us) to refuel and recalibrate the instruments. Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?"

Duhbya's Funding Policy

[ekrout]

"I have made the tough moral and ethical decision that the federal government can only fund direct and untainted descendants from the original Apollo spacecraft. Al(l) Gore's base belong to us."

120 million dollars???

[Picass0]

To take pictures of the Earth.

*sniff* that's so.... Oprah ...*sniff*

Al Gore could have downloaded openuniverse [openuniverse.org] and saved us alot of money.

Re:I dunno...

[unitron]

If the "Vandellas" find out you called them "Vandettas" (sounds like a Volkswagen), you're liable to find yourself with "Nowhere to Run", and worried about something worse than the current "Heatwave", perhaps finding yourself sinking in "Quicksand".

Re:Unconscious Gore

[Anonymous Coward]

It wasn't so much a "weather satellite" as it was a tool to make everyone in the world aware of our Gaia-ity. We see one blue world with swirling clouds and suddenly everyone realizes that we are one big family and all wars end and we have a huge harmonic convergence.

If that doesn't convince them to do it, we can always say it will track weather or something...

D.S.

Why?

[wrinkledshirt]

Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?

Why do dogs lick their own balls?

A: Because they can.

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Well, duh.

[Mike Schiraldi]

Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?

Sometimes a question just answers itself. :)