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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 122 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 26 points 1 month ago

FUCK. Wishing you guys all the best!

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

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

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 54 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 43 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

More openly than before with even less recourse.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They can carry weapons also.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] cryoistalline@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

His goal is a destroy the United States of America.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

His goal is a destroy the United States of America.

Once everyone understands this, his actions make sense.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also aligns suspiciously well with Putin's goals.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Putin won the cold war. This is what it looks like.

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

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

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Arm up and say no fucking way goddammit

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

and we'll call the company, Union Aerospace Corporation

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago