Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes
Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes
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Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes
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Ah man, NASA was pretty much the last thing cool thing about America.
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Of course they are
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SpaceX was always a space scam. Now it's the only scam.
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How is SpaceX a scam? Falcon 9 is the best rocket in the world at this time.
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Is this a semantics argument? Like you're arguing over the proper use of "scam"? or do you not see how the word scam could be implied in this context?
I ask because I was about to present a big thing with links and timelines showing how this has all played out since the early 2000's, but I'm not gonna go to all the trouble if you're just upset that a better word should be used besides "scam" since there is some sort of measurable output being performed.
(I still think scam is apt when you start breaking down the terminology though, it's still fraudulent practices which have been performed for the companies benefit, i.e. funding away from NASA)
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They sure know how to blow up rockets real good.
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If you're in the USA, don't get your hopes up.
From their job descriptions:
Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Canada, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia.
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I've absolutely been following some of the eurospace startups a lot more closely lately. The next time I switch jobs might be the first time I switch continents.
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If you're interested in space it's better to shift your gaze towards the ESA and CNSA. NASA isn't long for this world.
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Man, I just wanted to see humans on the moon in my life. NASA seemed like the best bet because they’re the only agency from the space race, with the recorded experience of doing long terms Spaceflight, still doing innovative things. Roscosmos hasn’t done much new since the soviets fell apart, even though we now know they had some wacky plans for things like Tri-propellant shuttles, and Energia was an amazing heavy lift vehicle that is basically just scrap metal at this point.
I thought Elon would be the reason we didn’t go to the moon because of starship being vaporware. Turns out Elon is the reason we’re not going to moon because he wants to cover up that starship is vaporware.
Shuttering NASA is a net loss not just for the USA but for the entire species. Everything from battery powered power tools, Velcro, the glass on our phones, the little safety grooves on highway off ramps, and a thousand other advancements not even including going to fucking space, can be traced back to NASA pushing human Spaceflight to its limit. Every dollar spent on Apollo generated something like 3 dollars in growth for the US economy because of all of the R&D that companies had to throw at the problem.
I only hope that either the ESA or CNSA can actually put humans on the moon. It was insane 50 years ago and it’s insane even today, but I still think that Armstrong’s first step onto the moon should go down as one of the most important moments in human history, the first time a human left earth and put his foot down on a different celestial body is just as important as the harnessing of fire or electricity. It should be the first step of many, not just a brief footnote that marks we were there.
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NASA's tech spinoffs literally changed our daily lives - their battery research for space missions directly led to the emergency power systems we use today (you can compare some power stations on gearscouts.com to see how far that tech has evolved with LFP batteries now getting below $0.5/Wh).
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Don't forget ISRO.
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JWST, being an Infrared telescope, is the successor to Spitzer.
Nancy Grace Roman, being an optical telescope, is the successor to Hubble.
Infrared telescopes have fundamentally worse resolution than their optical counterparts. The difference in image quality is so great that most people haven't even heard of Spitzer compared to Hubble. Now imagine the step up from Webb to Roman.
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No, sorry. Roman is a Hubble-class telescope with a wide field of view. It will do much more imaging than Hubble, but with about the same quality.
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who needs science when you make your own truth?
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In walks SpaceX I presume. Or he’ll make TelescopeX
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TeleGrok
No need to see anything when you can just generate random bullshit.
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All future telescopy will be limited to asteroid mining.
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You can’t fix stupid. 🤦🏻♂️
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I don't think stupidity is the driver here. This is all very deliberate.
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Yeah, the Christ fanatics hate science and find science to be their bitter enemy, essentially
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Yes, you can. With a shotgun.
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The only thing in life that I'm actually really passionate about... Cool stuff.
This administration finds new ways for me to wish for their death every day.
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You see gene stealer cultist goal is to weaken a planet for the star gods. Also they don't want anyone to see them come. Cause if you see nids coming everyone is going to arm up.
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Focussing on looking inwards perhaps?
Bahahahahahhaaaaa!
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caveman time
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This is really sad news, putting astro science on hold for 4 years straight.
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Figures. The fucking cunt has orders to follow.
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So depressing.
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I can barely imagine what's coming next.
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The extra stupid thing is that they'll probably won't save anything in the next 4 years anyways with how long timelines are for space planning. They'll just waste an incredible amount of investment. This is just such petty and cruel retaliation against anything related to climate science.
They just enjoy smashing stuff others value for no reason.
Pressuring aerospace industry. Endless corruption & greed.
Oh right... Elon gets rid of all the competition and space startups that rely on NASA outsourcing their rockets, while he maintains his contracts they go bankrupt. Holy shit.