(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,”
Yes, but it makes perfect sabotage sense from a saboteur's perspective.
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Democracies, that haven’t fallen, across the world will still collect this data, or build up to the point of being able to. Which means, the US plans to suppress those countries’ news and data too. Or, in other words, lock down the internet for their population like China does.
But that data will be foreign, rigged, unfair and fake.
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It makes no economic sense if you value science and the contribution it makes to our economy, our society, our future.
But science has no political loyalty
Just give them a dummy button and play the clip of the death star blowing up or something. They aren't going to check to make sure it happened. Keep it sending the data just turn off the server side recording it then turn it back on when they inevitably forget about it in a couple weeks.
This is 100% the answer. They will forget they ever wanted to do this because they will be managing another crisis of their own making in a week or two.
It makes me sad how confident I am that this would work.
Tax payer here. Let's not
Drop some other satellite and say it was this one. Trump won't be around forever.
They could probably just show him a video of some NASA employees knocking over one of those giant satellite dishes people used for TV in the 1980s and have him convinced.
That might actually work for most of GOP
Point to any random Falcon upper stage
There's plenty more assholes where Trump came from, unfortunately.
A lot of them are just as stupid. Make a video blowing something random up. Maybe a refrigerator. Tell them it's destroyed. Let it ride.
Which space program are you hoping to eliminate?
A star link satellite will do
NASA's budget. Is set. By CONGRESS.
Not anymore. "congress" aproves their irrelevitization since its Republicans
Learned a new word today
Im full of 'em
And executed by the executive branch, with a gun. The scrotus safety switch is fully in the off position.
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Don't do it; not like they can destroy it without you!
I wouldn't be so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to nuke it and EMPs the entire world, then with some Olympic level mental gymnastics, blames the Dems for his stupidity
Look what they made me do
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Dear No Kings crowd, please march on Washington.
Is this enough evidence to say that MAGA is running purely on accelerationism at this point?
I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world could unite and just remove USA from the map. Humanity might survive if it'd happen, but in the end, we all know we're going to burn together.
Humanity might survive if it’d happen
You think the current president's contingency plan isn't to just nuke everywhere and everything?
Hence 'might'
I live in the USA. I hate the current administration. I don’t want to be removed from the map.
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They’ll be cutting off funding for the program as well. So why not… move it to Canada or Germany?
Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over
He’s already had a fit with Canada. If his response continues to be to raise tariffs until all the affected sectors of the US economy just move to Canada to avoid them….
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Trumps on the list. Anything he does and says is just a distraction from not releasing the list.
The irony is that the MAGA slogan “America First” actually puts America behind other nations consistently. The irony behind the MAGA belief that Trump puts American workers first is that all his policies prioritize the interests of the very people they hate and want him to dismantle: the uber-rich “Elite.” MAGA voters are some of the dumbest, most gullible Americans in the country, and I personally think they simply vote for the politicians they do because said politicians fly the same bigotry flags they support: anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-racial-equality, etc. In other words, MAGA is basically just America’s bigots rallying under an “America First” banner, which is code for”straight, white Americans first.” So sad I know people who support this crap and don’t realize they’re falling in with the worst America has to offer.
These people are seriously the dumbest. The other day I was told that "finally Trump is fixing this shit" and that "tariffs are the price for doing business" and that I "have to pay them and can no longer freeload by spending money on healthcare". Didn't get an answer when I asked if he even knows how tariffs work and why it could possibly be that USA spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation in the world
Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute... I don't think you guys understand what this means, please don't blow up the domes.
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Donny 2 Dolls is an enemy to humanity, and to children in particular.
Release ALL the unredacted Epstein Files!!!!
Somewhat related, would be nice if they'd order Juno to be rerouted to check out interstellar comet 3I-Atlas, has to be done before the end of the month. Juno is slated to be deorbited into Jupiter in September so has no actual science left to do but probably enough fuel remaining for the rendesvous.
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Just don't.
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