‘What a waste.’ US scientists decry 47% cuts to NASA science budget
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/what-a-waste-us-scientists-decry-trumps-47-percent-cuts-to-nasa-science-budget
‘What a waste.’ US scientists decry 47% cuts to NASA science budget
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/what-a-waste-us-scientists-decry-trumps-47-percent-cuts-to-nasa-science-budget
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Sad that we’ll spend billions on war but hesitate to invest in exploring the final frontier.
Cuts to science funding? Sounds like we’re prioritizing the wrong space: MySpace over outer space
Space is the future. Cutting funds is like prohibiting progress
This is literally Idiocracy. Not exaggeration or hyperbole, ts is hapenning
The just makes me so sad. I know NDT is out here just so disappointed in us right now.
Science leads to things like “disagreement with Republicans”, and science funding is a synonym for “money not going to wealthy cronies”.
There’s nothing wrong with non governmentally funded space exploration.
Even nazis understood value of sciences. But hey. What can you expect from potus who goes rapid mental decline
The Trump administration is cutting NASA’s budget to double down on waste, fraud, and abuse at DoD that failed 7 audits, ICE masked thugs, and tax cuts to billionaires who made their fortunes on government subsidies and by pushing their employees into poverty, Medicaid, and food stamps.
Toddler TACO wants to move the USA back by at least 100 years.
Trump and Elon are absolute garbage. Their meddling in NASA has set the US space programs decades.
Now we all get to watch as other countries nationalized space programs complete missions we could have completed ourselves.
Looks like space is going to be corrupted by capitalism.
A core part of our national ethos used to be reaching for the literal stars and now it’s just bitterness, grievance, and even hate.
Some context over hyperbole
“Over time, NASA’s social media portfolio grew to more than 400 accounts across dozens of platforms. While each account has served an important purpose in telling our story, our focus is to improve the user experience through more cohesive messaging. We are reducing the overall number of accounts for a simplified presence that continues to inform, educate, and inspire the public.”
NASA research v Tax Cuts for Billionaires? No contest is it. I refuse to say what I really think about this decision. as it’ll get me banned from r/space
Imagine if NASA got to keep all their patents and made everyone pay licensing fees as any other tech company. There’s not a single industry that isn’t touched by what they’ve worked on.
Unrelated a bit, NASA is given permission to do this in For All Mankind.