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.
Trump is doing more for the science programs in other nations than those nations ever could.
It’s not like American scientists and intellectuals will flee to other nations that value themselves more, crippling US innovation…right?
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.
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.
It’s okay. Europe and China will replace the US and the world will be better off.
Not sure that’s true, but alright
Not sure about what? The US is certainly getting replaced, and we’ll all be better off if the Great Satan isn’t the center of scientific progress.
we’ll all be better off if the Great Satan isn’t the center of scientific progress.
No, I wouldn’t be better off living in a country where women are arrested and killed for appearing in public without a silly garment covering their head.
The women in that country would be better off without the US constantly attacking them.
The great…Satan? …Wat? Is that Europe orr… China?
You must be young. The Iranians and other parts of the middle east have referred to us since at least the 80s, and probably before.
When we brought a bunch of Nazis in after WWII and installed them in positions of importance (like heading NASA by Wernher von Braun) I think we gave them a pretty reasonable argument.
It’s like everyday I learn more and more about how shitty this country’s history is.
I sincerely encourage you to check out documentaties about china that dont start with genocide. You will see that today its used as red scare.
My country is in serious trouble but at least we never ran over protesting college students with tanks and then washed them down the drains.
Israel runs over people with its US tanks and it’s the 51st state, so, let’s not throw stones in this big shitty glass house?
Thanks for the whataboutism. Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.
I don’t need everyone else to be perfect to level valid criticism.
Hahaha y’all been saying that for a decade already don’t you get bored?
China is dying too silly. Their housing bubble is a nightmare, their currency is not desirable and all their factory jobs are going overseas.
China is dying
Hahaha y’all been saying that for a decade already don’t you get bored?
see how ridiculous it sounds? silly fake commies
What I’ve seen is an endless parade of liberals screaming China is “on the verge of collapse!!!1” for over a decade and I’ve seen the reality of China only becoming better over the same time period. There’s no basis for your claim, it’s just part of that same endless parade of anti-China propaganda we’ve all seen before.
And what I’ve seen is China become more powerful and life in China get better over that same time, while all those liberals kept screaming that China was going to collapse. I was a typical anti-China Western Marxist before COVID. The pandemic revealed that China is actually still a socialist project and that politics are in command when they shut down the economy instead of marching workers to the deaths, saving countless lives and advancing Chinese life expectancies above the US. That changed everything for me.
And over that same period I’ve seen the US get worse. In fact, it’s basically gotten worse over the entire time liberals were screaming that China was on the verge of collapse. This is an empire in decline and everyone can see it, so even if you’re anti-China I hope you can recognize the US is on its way out.
And soon enough, something else is going to happen that will give you the same experience. China isn’t going to collapse, it’s just going to continue peacefully developing and surpassing the US in more-and-more ways.
I don’t even need to win this argument, history will do it for me.
Is NASA a threat to Elon’s monopolization of launches?
Pretty much, why let the public sector do something when you can funnel government contracts to private industry for kickbacks?
I seriously don’t understand why he is doing this. Isn’t trump friends with eslong musk? The way i’m seeing this is cutting the budget for nasa would only go against elon. If he wanted to save money, then he should have just cut military spending.
Trump doesn’t want to save money, he wants to reward people who reward him. You can’t analyze anything he does in terms of anything he claims to be doing.
His goal is a destroy the United States of America.
His goal is a destroy the United States of America.
Once everyone understands this, his actions make sense.
It also aligns suspiciously well with Putin’s goals.
Putin won the cold war. This is what it looks like.
