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    America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life

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    1. keeperkairos on

      Only chance we have of finding alien life any time soon is if it’s in the solar system, and the cuts do greatly affect that.

    3. hhempstead on

      theres a lot of alien life going to be deported to sudan with the us supreme courts approval. some are planned to be confined in alligator alcatraz lol

    5. JigglymoobsMWO on

      Some of these will have to be revived with the next administration. In a way this is a good time for a reset. If SpaceX gets Starship working we will have a qualitative leap in launch capability (and really Falcon 9X is already a revolution) and with that many missions should really get a rethink. What’s more worrying though is the erosion of the workforce and loss of confidence by the wider space community.

    6. Top_Photograph_8592 on

      America is killing the chance of finding intelligent life in the USA…

    7. Grogbarrell on

      At least astronaut core will get an upgraded locker room instead of the asbestos ridden one right now

    9. wwarnout on

      Because of Trump’s policies, America is relinquishing its leadership in science – and they might never regain that position.

      Trump is anti-science. This makes him an existential threat to modern society.

    10. MonkeyKing01 on

      America cannot even detect intelligent politicians with critical thinking skills and put them in office. Not a chance it has the capability to detect alien life.

    11. MothmanIsALiar on

      Honestly, good. We’d probably just start a war with them immediately.

    12. Dear_Natural6370 on

      Its intentional, to force NASA into some kind of ‘sub-department’ just to be absorbed into Space Force.. R & D, its a waste of time considering NASA isn’t about ‘lethality’ as Pete Hesgeth wants. Not surprised by this move. Eventually NASA will be gone and Space Force will be the new ‘NASA’ but without the ‘useless R & D’ and more about how to exterminate more life, that’ll be the MAIN focus of R & D.

    15. GME_alt_Center on

      I “killed” my chance to win the lottery also. About the same odds.

    16. AusTex2019 on

      You’re asking the wrong question. Why would any intelligent life want anything to do with humans

    17. southpaw85 on

      As an avid alien enthusiast and someone who would be thrilled if we encountered new life out in space America has some stuff going on that may Trump the importance of this particular endeavor.

    18. Awkward-Motor3287 on

      It’s out there but we are never going to find it. It’s a needle in an infinite haystack

    19. That_Polish_Guy_927 on

      I don’t think aliens are going to want to visit *us* for the foreseeable future….

    20. The_Beagle on

      The vastness of the universe and the extreme gulfs of time has already killed our chance to find alien life.

    21. HallucinatedLottoNos on

      I mean, fair. But also let’s not connect this search to any one nationality. If it ever happens, it will be an achievement for all of humanity, no matter which country’s flag is on the housing of the machines.

    24. Illustrious-Hawk-898 on

      Good. America does a terrible job at sustaining any life. Time for America to just get out of the way.

    25. Tekbepimpin on

      Man, another sub i have to un-join and mute because of non stop anti American bullshit. RIP Space.

    27. ILikeStarScience on

      You want aliens, try CE5 and exploring non-local consciousness awareness

    28. wmempa on

      Y’all think it’s even a good time to introduce Aliens not from earth into the mix yet? Seems like a bunch of countries are having hard enough time just accepting “aliens” who are from this planet as is.

    29. 42Rocket on

      Bro we found them. They running the govt. think it’s just by chance they trying to kill us off?

    30. Kasern77 on

      Too many people don’t understand that space exploration also pioneer new technologies that could help humanity on earth.

    31. Mister_Brevity on

      Well, wouldn’t finding absolute proof of alien life seriously derail religion?

    32. USSManhattan on

      I think Donald Trump will be looked at by future Americans – if any – the way Germans look at Adolf Hitler.

      Not the genocide or war element (I hope). But for the sheer ruination and disgrace brought to the nation *and for what*.

    33. buffalonuts1 on

      Can’t even go to a space sub on Reddit without “Pwesident Twump is mean”

    34. pvJ0w4HtN5 on

      While I fully support space exploration and maximum funding of NASA, finding alien life will be a decades, if not centuries-long effort by mankind and this in the grand scheme of things will be a tiny and temporary setback. It’s not like it was right around the corner

    35. quoideneuf on

      Has the government not already admitted to the existence of UAP? I lament the budget cuts for space exploration as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend the government doesn’t already know more than they are letting on. We’ve already had numerous public congressional testimonies by the likes of Dave Grusch, David Fravor and others. It seems something may have already found us.

    36. Japjer on

      I mean… Folks, there probably isn’t intelligent life anywhere near us. We’ll likely find ruins of dead civilizations, or planets with early life still crawling up.

      You really have to remember a few things:

      1. Earth is *really* early in the game. The first stars were hypermassive giants that worked on making the heavier elements, and those elements didn’t come around until they went supernova. These guys only lasted 100,000,000 years or so, which isn’t really enough for planets to fully form and life to rise up. We’re on the earlier edge of “Lots of elements to play with, stars are chill, we had time to form.”

      2. Space is *really* big. Even if we found another planet where the maths conclude *life definitely exists* there, we could *never* see them. If that planet is 3,000,000,000 light years away, we’re seeing the planet as it was 3,000,000,000 years ago. Even if we somehow, *somehow* got actual pictures of that planet (which we couldn’t, but let’s pretend), we’d be seeing it well before life popped up.

      3. Time is *vast*, man. We humans have only been making radio waves for like 100 years. We’ve only been flying in space for 60. *Sixty*, man. Imagine if there was another planet, an exact copy of Earth, somewhere else. Close enough to see them or whatever. If life started it’s process just 3,000,000 years later, we’d never see intelligent life. We’d see little rats and shit. We’d be dead before the first intelligent life sprung up there. Or if life there came about 10,000 years before us, *they’d* probably be dead before we found them. Fuckin’… even 1,000 years would put us too far apart. Now imagine that, but with *billions* of years.

      Do I think alients exist? For sure. They have existed before us and they will exist after us. But I truly do not believe we will find any, if only because of #2 and #3

    38. ToMorrowsEnd on

      This is what happens when you let conservatives control something. Science is woke and they dont like it. Same with being actually educated. They hate that.

    40. bewareofrobot on

      we’re supposed to be hiding from aliens, not looking for them. didn’t you read the 3 body problem?

    41. phred_666 on

      They will never find me and my friends. And we’ve been here for quite a while.

    43. Texas103 on

      The Rare Earth Theory is most likely going to be accurate. 

      There is most likely no alien life in the observable universe… let alone intelligent life.

    44. lustriousParsnip639 on

      To be fair, the aliens are probably better off we don’t wee them first.

    45. zombiesingularity on

      America is a crumbling empire that is cutting the budget everywhere except the military. All it has left is brute force.

    46. Dog_in_human_costume on

      The ones killing it aren’t all happy with illegal aliens to begin with…

    47. chopsui101 on

      Who honestly gives a shit about alien life a trillion light years away?  Some ppl have way to much time on their hands 

    48. TheVoid-TheSun on

      America is killing many things and the brain drain that’s already begun is going to set America back even further.