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[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If we are talking about SpaceX then maybe you are correct. I don't think that's even close to true for NASA who are surviving on a much smaller share of the budget than they had in the 1960s.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

NASA may still purport to be science-based, but right now, NASA is MAGA, so they are contributing to the knowledge base for "Space Wealth Exploration."

ALL other American space programs have nothing to do with science, they are simply engineering projects to create successful escape pods from whatever is coming - climate meltdown, revolution, nuclear conflagration, etc.

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Also didn't Trump want to cancel some of the NASA moon missions?

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

MAGA like all mainstream politicians support science and technology when it suits them and agrees with them, and tear it down when it dosen't. That's just a fact of life. The other parties are no different, nor is the far left. You can see this with all the talk from leftist groups hating on AI and calling for data centers to be dismantled. There are some who call for the deindustrialization of society in general like the whole solar punk movement and agrarianism. The only political groups who legitimately always support science and technological progress in all it's forms are accelerationists and accelerationists come from all over the left-right spectrum.