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From an original cost estimate of $500 Million, now over 8.8
BILLION!! Mr. President, this telescope project is clearly out of control, and just keeping people employed. Please end it asap! Put a collar and a short tight leash around this barking dog. The original idea is outmoded anyway.
Technology is changing every few months now.
The risk should be managed through insurance policies.
If no one is willing to insure against cost overruns at any reasonable price, then the project should not be done.
NASA should be asking the Muzzies for technical and financial help.
In return for the NASA “investments” in Islam.
We don’t need no steenking contract
Shut it down until the Nation’s annual budget is balanced and/or has an 8.8 billion dollar surplus...
I would guess that this project got cancelled after the Global Warming Nazis in NASA got wind of it.
We can’t have any new scientific evidence that refutes CO2 driven global warming.
They will blame Trump if at all possible.
Too bad. Astrophysics is so interesting.
If you bid on building something for a particular cost, you should HAVE to deliver it. And once a contract is signed it should *literally* require an act of Congress to make ANY changes.
Make a plan, stick to it. Contracts should be sacred- both in payment and performance- no deviations, no changes, under harshest penalty of law.
Remember when the famed Hubble Space Telescope was launched without proper testing and it was found the lens were not aligned right? A shuttle flight was needed to give it corrective lens and mirrors.
I’m hoping that what really happened is that they spent 8.6 billion on space weapons.
Northrop Grumman. NASA, Fed Gov....
Obama, Bush and Clinton destroyed our defense contractors' effectveness.
Allowing a consolidation which resulted in only three major defense contractors also reduced competitiveness.
Had Congress not changed the original specs
This happens because they know that once a project is being funded, it is easier to modify it to many times the original cost than it is to scrap it and replace it with a new project....ran into this crap a LOT when developing courses for NSA...idiots kept demanding unnecessary integration so even programming a switch (maybe done once every 3-6 months) could be done from main consoles instead of via the console developed specifically for programming the switch....they kept crying, "Gotta stay cutting edge" and I kept telling them that if they didn't pick a point and finish, they would be chasing that cutting edge after Jesus returned....and never have an operational suite.....I wasn't their favorite person at any of the meetings...
The reason why we and other “aliens” cannot contact each other is because of cost overruns.....