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NASA leveled by Trump (www.nasa.gov)
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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.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 117 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

FUCK. Wishing you guys all the best!

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gotta protect your assets

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And appearances are a more valuable asset to corporations than employees.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Humbug. If the pleb jumps, it just shows they don't appreciate the ruling class.

[–] henfredemars 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 42 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Nu-uh magic Musk is going to fix all our problems.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] mriormro@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget that women and marginalized populations are now being discriminated against.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now?

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

More openly than before with even less recourse.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

You can shame them, now they wear it like a badge of honour.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

They can carry weapons also.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Trump is doing more for the science programs in other nations than those nations ever could.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

It's not like American scientists and intellectuals will flee to other nations that value themselves more, crippling US innovation...right?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is NASA a threat to Elon's monopolization of launches?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Pretty much, why let the public sector do something when you can funnel government contracts to private industry for kickbacks?

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and we'll call the company, Union Aerospace Corporation

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

😈

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Arm up and say no fucking way goddammit