Not only is Trump leveling science funding at NASA, like he did with the National Science Foundation, but look closely at the budget. Beginning next year at 800 million and by 2030, 3.5 billion (nearly 20% of its budget), NASA is required to work towards “Commercial Moon and Mars Infrastructure and Transportation”. The ultimate subsidy for the commercial space sector.
They also eliminated STEM engagement program, which provided funding for the next generation of scientists to participate in NASA opportunities. I can’t wait for all this greatness Trump has been preaching to arrive.
So, we all know what’s going on here, right? They’re gutting any part of our society that relies on intellectual work and trying to compete with motherfucking robots to bring factories back. They want to cram everyone into sweatshops. The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
E: well, at least the Roman space telescope lives on, I guess. I’m unreasonably excited for it; it’s already built and just needs to be launched, basically.
The Roman telescope will likely get shoved in storage. I work on it right now, we are talking internally about what this means. Obviously, I have no more information than you do, but the cuts are severe enough that there’s no way we will be able to keep working on it at the current levels if this goes through.
FUCK. Wishing you guys all the best!
The plan was never to bring good jobs back, the plan was always live-in factories and suicide nets on the windows.
Bold of you to assume they’ll spring for nets.
Gotta protect your assets
And appearances are a more valuable asset to corporations than employees.
Humbug. If the pleb jumps, it just shows they don’t appreciate the ruling class.
This is the same vibe as when the CEO gets a million dollar raise but we don’t have money for cost of living increases this year.
Sorry USA kids. No astronaut program this summer. Dream smaller this year.
Traitorapist Trump just set back the likely date for getting people to mars by roughly a quarter century. And yes, because of what Trump did it is very possible it will be accomplished first by another country.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT NEVER
So, Trump wants NASA to get to the Moon and Mars by 2030 while on a slashed budget with limited scientists? Get ready for more spacecraft to drop out of the sky.
No, Trump does not want NASA to get to the Moon or Mars.
Trump wants NASA to be a tool that funnel money from the government to billionaires, aka Musk and Bezos
Nu-uh magic Musk is going to fix all our problems.
Sadly, getting more places with less money is absolutely possible, but the key to making it happen is abandoning planetary science. It’s a shift from a paradigm where engineering exists to support planetary science efforts to engineering for engineering’s sake
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Now?
More openly than before with even less recourse.
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They can carry weapons also.
Trump is doing more for the science programs in other nations than those nations ever could.
It’s not like American scientists and intellectuals will flee to other nations that value themselves more, crippling US innovation…right?
Is NASA a threat to Elon’s monopolization of launches?
Pretty much, why let the public sector do something when you can funnel government contracts to private industry for kickbacks?
Arm up and say no fucking way goddammit
