Amerika tötet seine Chance, ein fremdes Leben zu finden
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/nasa-observatory-funding-trump-alien-life/683427/?gift=MTpMeovVGGDiWeIWSXzhsv-IQDCkDtMQ9kYbAJgxI8M
Amerika tötet seine Chance, ein fremdes Leben zu finden
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/nasa-observatory-funding-trump-alien-life/683427/?gift=MTpMeovVGGDiWeIWSXzhsv-IQDCkDtMQ9kYbAJgxI8M
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Only chance we have of finding alien life any time soon is if it’s in the solar system, and the cuts do greatly affect that.
theres a lot of alien life going to be deported to sudan with the us supreme courts approval. some are planned to be confined in alligator alcatraz lol
Tbf America is killing its chance to sustain human life
Some of these will have to be revived with the next administration. In a way this is a good time for a reset. If SpaceX gets Starship working we will have a qualitative leap in launch capability (and really Falcon 9X is already a revolution) and with that many missions should really get a rethink. What’s more worrying though is the erosion of the workforce and loss of confidence by the wider space community.
America is killing the chance of finding intelligent life in the USA…
Americas killing it’s chance of everything other than enriching the rich
Because of Trump’s policies, America is relinquishing its leadership in science – and they might never regain that position.
Trump is anti-science. This makes him an existential threat to modern society.
Alien life? United States can’t even find its balls right now.
Somebody tell them there might be oil in space
You’re asking the wrong question. Why would any intelligent life want anything to do with humans
It’s out there but we are never going to find it. It’s a needle in an infinite haystack
The vastness of the universe and the extreme gulfs of time has already killed our chance to find alien life.
I mean, fair. But also let’s not connect this search to any one nationality. If it ever happens, it will be an achievement for all of humanity, no matter which country’s flag is on the housing of the machines.
This is where I draw the line. America has gone too far.
/s
Even if we found it, we’d just deport it to El Salvador.
Man, another sub i have to un-join and mute because of non stop anti American bullshit. RIP Space.
You want aliens, try CE5 and exploring non-local consciousness awareness
Y’all think it’s even a good time to introduce Aliens not from earth into the mix yet? Seems like a bunch of countries are having hard enough time just accepting “aliens” who are from this planet as is.
Bro we found them. They running the govt. think it’s just by chance they trying to kill us off?
Too many people don’t understand that space exploration also pioneer new technologies that could help humanity on earth.
Well, wouldn’t finding absolute proof of alien life seriously derail religion?
Can’t even go to a space sub on Reddit without “Pwesident Twump is mean”
While I fully support space exploration and maximum funding of NASA, finding alien life will be a decades, if not centuries-long effort by mankind and this in the grand scheme of things will be a tiny and temporary setback. It’s not like it was right around the corner
Has the government not already admitted to the existence of UAP? I lament the budget cuts for space exploration as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend the government doesn’t already know more than they are letting on. We’ve already had numerous public congressional testimonies by the likes of Dave Grusch, David Fravor and others. It seems something may have already found us.
I mean… Folks, there probably isn’t intelligent life anywhere near us. We’ll likely find ruins of dead civilizations, or planets with early life still crawling up.
You really have to remember a few things:
1. Earth is *really* early in the game. The first stars were hypermassive giants that worked on making the heavier elements, and those elements didn’t come around until they went supernova. These guys only lasted 100,000,000 years or so, which isn’t really enough for planets to fully form and life to rise up. We’re on the earlier edge of „Lots of elements to play with, stars are chill, we had time to form.“
2. Space is *really* big. Even if we found another planet where the maths conclude *life definitely exists* there, we could *never* see them. If that planet is 3,000,000,000 light years away, we’re seeing the planet as it was 3,000,000,000 years ago. Even if we somehow, *somehow* got actual pictures of that planet (which we couldn’t, but let’s pretend), we’d be seeing it well before life popped up.
3. Time is *vast*, man. We humans have only been making radio waves for like 100 years. We’ve only been flying in space for 60. *Sixty*, man. Imagine if there was another planet, an exact copy of Earth, somewhere else. Close enough to see them or whatever. If life started it’s process just 3,000,000 years later, we’d never see intelligent life. We’d see little rats and shit. We’d be dead before the first intelligent life sprung up there. Or if life there came about 10,000 years before us, *they’d* probably be dead before we found them. Fuckin’… even 1,000 years would put us too far apart. Now imagine that, but with *billions* of years.
Do I think alients exist? For sure. They have existed before us and they will exist after us. But I truly do not believe we will find any, if only because of #2 and #3
The president heard „Aliens“ and said not on my watch
This is what happens when you let conservatives control something. Science is woke and they dont like it. Same with being actually educated. They hate that.