NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to costs …
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I hate the fucking Source: AP, in their pop-up-ad laden article on the matter… (By Seth Borenstein)
NASA on Tuesday announced that its GeoCarb mission, which was supposed to be a low-cost satellite to monitor carbon dioxide, methane and how plant life changes over North and South America, was being killed because of cost overruns.
When it was announced six years ago, it was supposed to cost $166 million, but the latest NASA figures show costs would balloon to more than $600 million and it was years late, according to NASA Earth Sciences Director Karen St. Germain.
Unlike other satellites that monitor greenhouse gases from low Earth orbit and get different parts of the globe in a big picture, GeoCarb was supposed to be at a much higher altitude of 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) from one fixed place in orbit and focus intently on North and South America. That different and further perspective proved too difficult and costly to get done on budget and on time, St. Germain said.
Hell, no... I'm not giving up...
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Or, Jeff for that matter. Space tourism is okay, but monitoring greenhouse gases is not glamorous enough.
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How Convenient!
If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit WC Fields
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