I hope there is at least one librarian with a big house.
Mr_strelac on
I will never understand the right-wingers’ hatred of books.
it seems that if the Nazis burned books, then they have to do it too.
toiletting on
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ’em
ibelieveindogs on
Step 1: tell people basic science and research are useless.
Step 2: throw away everything we know from science and research.
Step 3: tell everyone that money spent on science and research is wasted.
Step 4: stop funding science and research.
BasementDwellerDave on
That’s so fuckin bullshit!!!. A single book of knowledge can last a thousand years with care! An electronic cannot
Tall-Introduction414 on
All part of Vladimir Putin and his fat little puppet’s destruction of the United States.
Criminal.
silverfish477 on
America has become such a shit country. Bye. History won’t remember your willing destruction fondly.
copperblood on
Trump is aging out and is trying to take the country down with him. He’s literally getting infusions in both hands now and is wearing compression socks to help increase circulation and mitigate blood clots.
Usually when people are living on borrowed time as Trump is, there’s usually humility that comes with it. But oh no not Trump. He’s trying to burn as much of everything down as he can before he checks out, which will take us decades and decades to restore. Fuck Trump and fuck any MAGA who are enabling the piece of shit.
My_alias_is_too_lon on
This war on intelligence is getting out of hand….
It’s shit like this that makes me believe that Trump’s main goal is to damage this country so much that it crumbles to ash in the wake of his presidency. It’s the only thing that explains his insane behavior and gutting of crucial agencies. There is nothing to be gained from destroying all of that information, unless you hate intelligent people.
Bendito999 on
Is there a way to Area 51 “they can’t stop us all” it today? Maybe we can find the aliens in there.
42ElectricSundaes on
If Russia was pulling the strings would Trump be doing anything different?
healeyd on
Couldn’t some egomaniac billionaire tech-bro buy the lot and slap his name on the new library? At least the collection would survive.
Plenty_Performer7785 on
This is exactly why I’ve started buying physical versions of all the textbooks/technical works I use for my job, along with making local copies of music I love off streaming. Whilst the books and media I consume are less likely to get thrown out by right wingers (mostly electronics and DSP programming), the thought of being unable to learn anything new is a massive fear of mine, especially as a lot of the info I learn/consume isn’t available anywhere other than in these research papers/textbooks, and the theory behind it is completely beyond my ability to work out myself.
boredvet1 on
Can someone toss them my way?
RidetheSchlange on
What’s nuts is seeing how Americans either don’t care or don’t even know. The outright disdain for education that has been perpetuated and even boosted by people like Joe Rogan is so real.
Now one of the things an invading force often did was to destroy libraries and centers of culture to wipe out the evidence of histories and be able to create a new one over time. It really seems like Heritage and Trump are doing just that as they bring the first American Republic to a close as part of their revolution.
MrFizzbin7 on
Can’t some universities band together and save this material MIT, Stanford, any other colleges…
TheWalrus_15 on
Just insane
_ECMO_ on
I am willing to adopt those books.
lachlanhunt on
They must believe all the information you ever need can be regurgitated by AI, and the priceless books and research are redundant. They’re insane.
curves-left on
Destruction of public property. We own that stuff.
Sassy-irish-lassy on
I don’t know what these books contain, but hopefully they’ve at least been digitally back up?
BuffaloImpossible620 on
No worries – they will use Grok AI to solve the HLS issues ;).
mewfour123412 on
For fuck sake he live on a diet of Big Macs! Why hasn’t he died of a stroke yet?!
MelloCervello on
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
~George Orwell,1984
DeathKillsLove on
We all know why tRump wants NASA to stop the good work.
He said it before “Slow down the testing please”
Theonewho_hasspoken on
Damn this administration!
TheB1G_Lebowski on
This is just a fucking travesty. How can any supporter of the mango Mussolini really think this is a good idea. Wait, they don’t have ideas. How the fuck are we going to recover from this orange shit stain?
Few_Software_7794 on
I wouldn’t mind taking nasa abandonware
theavocadolady on
Surely there’s a billionaire out there who could and would set up a library to house these books until this madness is over?
Timmy_germany on
Another big step for Antiscience and Anti-intellectualism towards theocracy, dictatorship and fascism. This is beyond sad..[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience)
MetamagicIII on
Knowledge being lost is one of the biggest crimes humanity can commit
SubstantialNature368 on
No worries! Donny Taco already knows all that shit.
Key-Beginning-2201 on
So not only is there no congressional mandate, but nothing will be donated to the library of Congress?
RevolutionaryCard512 on
This is heartbreaking and blood boiling
Worldly-Interview392 on
Is there any chance to preserve the knowledge in those books?
> …the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away.
> …“This is a consolidation not a closure,” said NASA spokeswoman Bethany Stevens. The changes were part of a long-planned reorganization that began before the Trump administration took office, she said. She said that shutting down the facilities would save $10 million a year and avoid another $63.8 million in deferred maintenance.
> … A 2022 master plan called for some consolidation and demolition of facilities at Goddard as well as the construction of new buildings. Ms. Stevens, the NASA spokeswoman, said buildings are being closed because they are outdated or are in an unsafe condition.
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Can’t they be donated to a public library??
That’s how we lost the moon landing footage
I hope there is at least one librarian with a big house.
I will never understand the right-wingers’ hatred of books.
it seems that if the Nazis burned books, then they have to do it too.
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ’em
Step 1: tell people basic science and research are useless.
Step 2: throw away everything we know from science and research.
Step 3: tell everyone that money spent on science and research is wasted.
Step 4: stop funding science and research.
That’s so fuckin bullshit!!!. A single book of knowledge can last a thousand years with care! An electronic cannot
All part of Vladimir Putin and his fat little puppet’s destruction of the United States.
Criminal.
America has become such a shit country. Bye. History won’t remember your willing destruction fondly.
Trump is aging out and is trying to take the country down with him. He’s literally getting infusions in both hands now and is wearing compression socks to help increase circulation and mitigate blood clots.
Usually when people are living on borrowed time as Trump is, there’s usually humility that comes with it. But oh no not Trump. He’s trying to burn as much of everything down as he can before he checks out, which will take us decades and decades to restore. Fuck Trump and fuck any MAGA who are enabling the piece of shit.
This war on intelligence is getting out of hand….
It’s shit like this that makes me believe that Trump’s main goal is to damage this country so much that it crumbles to ash in the wake of his presidency. It’s the only thing that explains his insane behavior and gutting of crucial agencies. There is nothing to be gained from destroying all of that information, unless you hate intelligent people.
Is there a way to Area 51 “they can’t stop us all” it today? Maybe we can find the aliens in there.
If Russia was pulling the strings would Trump be doing anything different?
Couldn’t some egomaniac billionaire tech-bro buy the lot and slap his name on the new library? At least the collection would survive.
This is exactly why I’ve started buying physical versions of all the textbooks/technical works I use for my job, along with making local copies of music I love off streaming. Whilst the books and media I consume are less likely to get thrown out by right wingers (mostly electronics and DSP programming), the thought of being unable to learn anything new is a massive fear of mine, especially as a lot of the info I learn/consume isn’t available anywhere other than in these research papers/textbooks, and the theory behind it is completely beyond my ability to work out myself.
Can someone toss them my way?
What’s nuts is seeing how Americans either don’t care or don’t even know. The outright disdain for education that has been perpetuated and even boosted by people like Joe Rogan is so real.
Now one of the things an invading force often did was to destroy libraries and centers of culture to wipe out the evidence of histories and be able to create a new one over time. It really seems like Heritage and Trump are doing just that as they bring the first American Republic to a close as part of their revolution.
Can’t some universities band together and save this material MIT, Stanford, any other colleges…
Just insane
I am willing to adopt those books.
They must believe all the information you ever need can be regurgitated by AI, and the priceless books and research are redundant. They’re insane.
Destruction of public property. We own that stuff.
I don’t know what these books contain, but hopefully they’ve at least been digitally back up?
No worries – they will use Grok AI to solve the HLS issues ;).
For fuck sake he live on a diet of Big Macs! Why hasn’t he died of a stroke yet?!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
~George Orwell,1984
We all know why tRump wants NASA to stop the good work.
He said it before “Slow down the testing please”
Damn this administration!
This is just a fucking travesty. How can any supporter of the mango Mussolini really think this is a good idea. Wait, they don’t have ideas. How the fuck are we going to recover from this orange shit stain?
I wouldn’t mind taking nasa abandonware
Surely there’s a billionaire out there who could and would set up a library to house these books until this madness is over?
Another big step for Antiscience and Anti-intellectualism towards theocracy, dictatorship and fascism. This is beyond sad..[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience)
Knowledge being lost is one of the biggest crimes humanity can commit
No worries! Donny Taco already knows all that shit.
So not only is there no congressional mandate, but nothing will be donated to the library of Congress?
This is heartbreaking and blood boiling
Is there any chance to preserve the knowledge in those books?
Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html#:~:text=library%2Dclosing.html-,NASA's%20Largest%20Library%20Is%20Closing%20Amid%20Staff%20and%20Lab%20Cuts,be%20warehoused%20or%20thrown%20out
> …the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away.
> …“This is a consolidation not a closure,” said NASA spokeswoman Bethany Stevens. The changes were part of a long-planned reorganization that began before the Trump administration took office, she said. She said that shutting down the facilities would save $10 million a year and avoid another $63.8 million in deferred maintenance.
> … A 2022 master plan called for some consolidation and demolition of facilities at Goddard as well as the construction of new buildings. Ms. Stevens, the NASA spokeswoman, said buildings are being closed because they are outdated or are in an unsafe condition.
How stupid can they be 🤣
Is this for real? This sounds like clickbait
Fahrenheit 451