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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The budget provides insufficient (or no) funding for future NASA flagship missions: LISA, the space-based successor to LIGO, the Nancy Roman Telescope, an already-constructed super-Hubble that’s awaiting launch, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory, the first-ever telescope that will be capable of directly imaging Earth-sized worlds at Earth-like distances around Sun-like stars, and our best hope for finding our first inhabited planet beyond Earth.

That part about super hubble kills me. This is terrible. Is there any way to redirect all my federal tax income directly into NASA? :P

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Sorry, all the money that's left after the military is going into concentration camps and persecuting people. The USA has clear priorities, and learning is not among them.

[–] Wav_function@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Nah, sorry some billionaires need a tax cut