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    Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes

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    2. Sasha_Boykisser on

      Well I guess China is catching up with space science and I hope current telescopes will work as intended.

    3. LazarusKing on

      I’d ask where all this money is going to go, but we all know the answer already.  Something worse and more expensive.

    4. HumDinger02 on

      Ah, yes!

      The Orange Idiot is chopping up the most successful nation in history and turning us into mincemeat.

    9. RedofPaw on

      I wonder if vast amounts of the existing NASA budget is going to make it’s way to a certain private space company….

    10. geekgirl114 on

      Congress has the power of the purse… but they are to much of a coward to use it. Especially right now. 

    11. Yertle_Tertle on

      “Why would I care about anyone else at all when I can get rich and stay above water for the rest of my life? Who cares if we don’t get technology advances? I’ll be dead!”

    13. rexspook on

      At this point I’m just sad. The rapid decline in American ingenuity will take so long to recover after he’s finished smashing it to pieces.

    14. Bipogram on

      Worse for some fields,

      *”The astrophysics budget would drop from $1.5 billion to $487 million”*

      O_O

    15. Jesse-359 on

      Told ya we’d lose the telescopes. It was only a matter of time – and as it turned out, only a matter of *weeks*.

      We’ll be very lucky if they don’t literally abandon JWST in the middle of its mission at this rate.

    18. Xyrus2000 on

      NASA accounts for a fraction of a percent of the budget and is already starved for funding.

      These idiots are just handing space and science dominance to China on a silver platter.

    19. PaymentTurbulent193 on

      So again.

      REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE SAID THAT TRUMP WOULD BE GOOD FOR SPACE SCIENCE!?

      It’s heartbreaking bc the proposed successors to the JWST looked amazing.

    21. ZombieRichardNixonx on

      Unfortunately, I’m not too surprised. I don’t think Trump has any concept of curiosity, and certainly no comprehension of its value.

    22. canigetahint on

      At this point, why are they even keeping NASA? This administration cares NOTHING about science, especially astronomy.

      Looks like we need to start learning how to read, write and speak the various dialects of Chinese, as that is the only way we are going to be getting any intelligent education in the coming decades…

    24. ForrestDials8675309 on

      The cuts to NASA, NOAA, and NIH research will create a brain drain. The best and brightest scientists will leave the US and go to countries that will fund research. We’re becoming a third -world country.

    26. alu5421 on

      We are back to the Dark Ages. This is surreal. It will take years to come back to a first world country

    27. s416a on

      This is deplorable if true. The US will move itself to the bottom of the list of science – easily encouraging other countries to pick up the mantle and get the job of researching space done.

      Morons

    28. StefenTower on

      When it comes to these and other space developments, Europe and China aren’t stopping. Only stupid America is. Stupid, stupid America.

    31. BradSaysHi on

      But guys, can’t we keep politics out of this sub? The left politicizes everything, smh.
      /s obviously

    32. sutroheights on

      “Don’t look up” felt a little too close when it came out. Now it’s like a documentary.

    33. AlludedNuance on

      Where’s that supposed NASA employee that was in here saying everyone was overreacting and that NASA’s mission would be just fine?

    34. w0weez0wee on

      Maybe my favorite thing that the US government does is send big telescopes and little robots into space. This is what I personally want my tax dollar spent on. And of course, the prestige we get from these missions is a huge plus. Scientists from all over the world want to work with NASA. But that is soft power, which counts for nothing now.