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Trump is doing more for the science programs in other nations than those nations ever could.
So, we all know what's going on here, right? They're gutting any part of our society that relies on intellectual work and trying to compete with motherfucking robots to bring factories back. They want to cram everyone into sweatshops. The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
E: well, at least the Roman space telescope lives on, I guess. I'm unreasonably excited for it; it's already built and just needs to be launched, basically.
The Roman telescope will likely get shoved in storage. I work on it right now, we are talking internally about what this means. Obviously, I have no more information than you do, but the cuts are severe enough that there's no way we will be able to keep working on it at the current levels if this goes through.
FUCK. Wishing you guys all the best!
The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
Bold of you to assume they'll spring for nets.
It's not like American scientists and intellectuals will flee to other nations that value themselves more, crippling US innovation...right?
Is NASA a threat to Elon's monopolization of launches?
Pretty much, why let the public sector do something when you can funnel government contracts to private industry for kickbacks?
It's okay. Europe and China will replace the US and the world will be better off.
. Europe and China will replace the US and the world will be better off.
Only if China finally gets to choose their own leaders. Until then it is fucked up even worse.
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This is the same vibe as when the CEO gets a million dollar raise but we don't have money for cost of living increases this year.
Sorry USA kids. No astronaut program this summer. Dream smaller this year.
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I seriously don't understand why he is doing this. Isn't trump friends with eslong musk? The way i'm seeing this is cutting the budget for nasa would only go against elon. If he wanted to save money, then he should have just cut military spending.
Trump doesn't want to save money, he wants to reward people who reward him. You can't analyze anything he does in terms of anything he claims to be doing.
His goal is a destroy the United States of America.
His goal is a destroy the United States of America.
Once everyone understands this, his actions make sense.
It also aligns suspiciously well with Putin's goals.
Putin won the cold war. This is what it looks like.
So, Trump wants NASA to get to the Moon and Mars by 2030 while on a slashed budget with limited scientists? Get ready for more spacecraft to drop out of the sky.
No, Trump does not want NASA to get to the Moon or Mars.
Trump wants NASA to be a tool that funnel money from the government to billionaires, aka Musk and Bezos
Nu-uh magic Musk is going to fix all our problems.
Sadly, getting more places with less money is absolutely possible, but the key to making it happen is abandoning planetary science. It’s a shift from a paradigm where engineering exists to support planetary science efforts to engineering for engineering’s sake
Don’t forget that women and marginalized populations are now being discriminated against.
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