Trump Admin to Slice NASA in Half and Cancel New Telescopes

I work on one of these telescopes. Got the news today thay they're trying to close Goddard, and the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, and basically all Earth observing satellite work. It would completely upend our ability to predict 7 day weather, extreme weather events like hurricanes, and make science basically inaccessible from space. I'm surprised they aren't moving the funding over to SpaceX entirely.
- It’s fucking heartbreaking to see, as an astronomy and astrophysics enthusiast.
  At the same time, I hope that the loss in weather prediction capabilities leads to catastrophic damage to Mar a Lago and as many other of his properties as possible. And I admit that there’s a part of me that’s quite gleeful at the prospect of the maga-leaning parts of the country getting absolutely fucked by unexpected weather phenomena that will escalate in frequency and severity. Maybe it’ll render a bunch of those voters… unable to vote going forward, if you get my drift.
  
  Some of them already think weather is a Democrat conspiracy .
  It'd be both amazing and unsurprising to watch them not connect the cause-and-effect here.
  It's truly incredible how many times that cult can blow off its own feet and refuse to take accountability for it.
  
  It really sucks. I legit feel like I might get kicked out of the space industry bcz of the dumbass administration. I will end up in the private sector making rockets for space tourism, which isn't inspiring at all bcz, let's face it. Going into space and being a billionaire isn't all that special. But doing science for humankind, that's something to aspire too, and they're trying to take that away from us.
  
  Aren't they already getting fucked, their were quite a few storms that devastated the south recently, but MSM refuses to cover then
- less funding for you = more subsidies for Felon Musk.
- This is awful. I’m so sorry.
  
  The anti science and intellectualism attacks has gotten worse. And stem was already teetering into abyss before, in terms of funding and stem majors finding jobs
- That's the whole point of SpaceX. Why have a space program when we can funnel endless money to a grifter?

Ah man, NASA was pretty much the last thing cool thing about America.

Just repeating the past
Even non-MAGAs probably remember Trump as being heavily pro-NASA last time around, but all he wanted then was a splashy moon landing mission to recapture the PR magic of the 1960s space race. When it came to science that wouldn't dazzle his fans, he was the same as he is now.

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.

This is really sad news, putting astro science on hold for 4 years straight.

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.

Focussing on looking inwards perhaps?
Bahahahahahhaaaaa!
- Gonna need microscopes for that

Now we lost the space information and science race. Now, there won’t be sharing globally about scientific space breakthroughs. Now, those countries that do make those breakthroughs will sell us the information once it’s no longer relevant.

When's the next 50501?
- Every weekend for the foreseeable future. A big event planned for April 19.
  https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
  (I know you surely knew all this, I’m just playing the part, for the benefit of the audience.)

SpaceX was always a space scam. Now it's the only scam.
- How is SpaceX a scam? Falcon 9 is the best rocket in the world at this time.
  
  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)
  
  They sure know how to blow up rockets real good.

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.
- 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.
- Don't forget ISRO.

How did I have bad luck enough to end up in the stupidest timeline?
- They shot that fucking gorilla. That is how.
  
  F
  
  Save the gorilla. Save the world.
  
  No, it was Bowie
- Maybe that implies it's the only timeline in which you exist.
  
  so it's their fault
  
  It could also be the only timeline you're in to tell me that. 🤷

Of course they are

- 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.
- 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.

- 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.

who needs science when you make your own truth?

In walks SpaceX I presume. Or he’ll make TelescopeX
- TeleGrok
  No need to see anything when you can just generate random bullshit.
- All future telescopy will be limited to asteroid mining.

You can’t fix stupid. 🤦🏻‍♂️
- I don't think stupidity is the driver here. This is all very deliberate.
  
  Yeah, the Christ fanatics hate science and find science to be their bitter enemy, essentially
- Yes, you can. With a shotgun.

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.