The Trump administration’s planned cuts would end 53 planned or ongoing NASA Science missions
The Artemis II mission and its successful return to Earth have, for now, brought the American public’s attention back to NASA and its aspirational mission to push the boundaries of humanity into space.
Achieving those goals costs billions, but the Office of Management and Budget under Donald Trump’s administration is planning deep cuts to NASA’s budget.
Famed science communicator and teacher Bill Nye has described Trump’s planned cuts as “surprising, illogical, and very troubling” in a new op-ed for MS NOW.
“These cuts would be an insult to our astronauts and entire NASA workforce. Astronauts and their colleagues are civil servants who work hard, accomplish nearly impossible things and represent our country to the world,” he wrote.
That’s not true, when we invest in NASA we get those funds back as technological advancements. Velcro for example. Funding the Artemis missions would enable us to build a permanent moon base, providing a new environment for conducting scientific research and preparing us to expand humanity to other worlds.
All those hundreds of billions spent and Velcro is all we have to show for it.
It’s better than spending it on war I suppose.
NASA literally invented single crystal solar cells. If we didn’t have that, we’d have even less hope of beating the climate crisis.
The climate is just fine
Oh yeah, you’re a special kind of special.
I guess even Lemmy has dumbass conservatives and climate change deniers. Let me guess…you also are anti-vax, too?
I could show you a video clip of Netanyahu during the last 30some years claiming Iran is weeks away from nuclear bomb
I can also show you a video of politicians from the last 30 or so years claiming the climate is a disaster and ice caps will melt and ocean levels will flood Florida and so on
Both are bullshit
So all of those stronger hurricanes in the US in the Golf of Mexico, stronger winter storms in the Midwest and northeast, droughts in the west, actual data showing ice shelves receding, higher average temperatures in Europe, record breaking temperatures in the Middle East and India…
All of that is bullshit, huh?
We have better record keeping now.
Comparing to before (say 75 or 100 years ago)is pointless
The data recorded in the last 10-20 years show large rises, too. Even if I agreed with your assessment of “old data can’t be trusted because we had worse measurement capabilities then”, there is evidence right now showing short term, meteoric rises, too. And all of that data points to human driven climate change.
Oh yep nobody new how to write anything above 40 in the old days. Your an idiot.
Travel to the north like way north Cambridge bay or somewhere up in the tundra of Nunavit or NWTo the people there and tell me climate change is bullshit. There buildings built on “perma” frost are sinking grass is growing where there has never been grass. But yep it is all fake.
They have found palm trees in antarctica
No. They found evidence they grew there. …Millions of years ago.
The scientist has spoken, everyone.
Thanks Chuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
A bit more than Velcro. Memory foam, for example.
“Ha you went to the moon? So 55 years ago loser”
Ball pens that work upside down!
Pencil is much cheaper
Graphite dust from pencils is a nightmare in space. It’s tiny and conductive.
Good thing NASA is only ever in a sound stage studio,😛
Man, if that were true we would have found life on Europa by now. 😉
Yes, but that’s for ruzzians. You wouldn’t want graphite powder floating in the space capsule! Would you?
Probably better than ink floating around
The Chinese just used India ink? LOL. I love this historical made up fact.