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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.
caveman time
"keeping his promise to restore America's proud legacy of leadership in space"
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
So depressing.
Figures. The fucking cunt has orders to follow.
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.
How did I have bad luck enough to end up in the stupidest timeline?
They shot that fucking gorilla. That is how.
Save the gorilla. Save the world.
No, it was Bowie
Man, I didn't even know David Bowie was in Ohio that day, let alone the same zoo!
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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.
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.
For whatever it’s worth, I am quite sad that people like you are having their career motivations crushed by this idiocy. I wish I could help or move the needle in some way, because I think space exploration and pure science is fucking rad, but nobody gives a shit what engineers think anymore. They just plug us in to solve the problem just enough so that it’s an MVP and then don’t let us address any of the fucking tech debt. And I’m probably going off on a tangent here, but whatever. It’s Friday and I’m 4 beers deep.
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.
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.
In my career I've learned there is a difference between what they ask for, and what they'll accept. If a NASA engineer with some crazy specific knowledge and skills offers their services, these rules might suddenly not apply.
Fair enough, and on that same token, if you are that person you probably don't need to check if there's even an opening that fits your knowledge. Just apply.
The other positions, though, probably will follow that requirement more closely.
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.
You can’t fix stupid. 🤦🏻♂️
Yes, you can. With a shotgun.
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
Of course they are
