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    1. FartomicMeltdown on

      Republicans/conservatives/religious nuts hate science and progress. They’re the scourge of the earth.

    2. ImAnActualScientist on

      Something to remember is that once we lose the ability to successfully launch spacecraft we cannot just turn a knob and get it back.

      As *one* example, highly specialized parts are often necessary for spacecraft. Usually you can build a few of those parts for a given mission. It is (was) within people’s actual jobs to know how to build those specialized parts, including what materials suppliers provides a high-enough quality of material (can actually be a huge issue), how to test the raw material and manufactured parts, how to build the parts to maintain structural integrity, what types of treatments those parts need before they are integrated into a craft, what mistakes have been made before with similar parts, and even how the parts can be store the parts before integration and launch.

      It’s highly specialized work that has to be supported. If we lose the personal and ability now, it will not be coming back.

    3. They’re destroying humanity period. This goes behind just Nasa/space and into all of science. All of free critical thinking. As crazy as it sounds, the concept of truth is being destroyed.

    4. It doesn’t help that public sentiment is that space exploration is a waste of time and money and only.

    5. decrementsf on

      The engineers left NASA long ago for the private sector. NASA is a jobs program. Another form of welfare. It is the nature of administrative bloat to eventually squeeze everyone productive out. There is a vitality at the start of a new group and over time it ossifies. Eventually cut the Gordian Knot and start fresh with a new mission with a small group of highly competent people and a small budget and build the new successor heir to the bloated gassy body of the former institution putrifying on the beach. NASA hasn’t produced since the early 1990s. Got lapped by smaller groups. It’s done.

    6. „We should focus on our problems here on Earth!“

      „Okay, let’s stop polluting it.“

      „…No.“

    7. Somehow I doubt this will destroy mankind’s ability to go on future missions. In reality, NASA will need to prioritize funding for their most important missions…and defund those deemed less important. Mankind does this around the world on a daily basis…NASA seems to be struggling with the concept.

    8. hotdogtuesday1999 on

      The destruction of these resources so as to necessitate the redirection of services to privatization is inexcusably corrupt. You cripple a nation and its brightest resources so that a private company is all that is left to provide this resource of progress and intellectual momentum, and you ensure the failure of a nation by the denial of all that is learned behind the paywalls they will inevitably build.

    9. While I hate what they’re doing to NASA mankind isn’t just the US. Just saying. Trump won’t destroy mankind, he’ll just destroy the US. It had a good run, granted.

    10. accurate. they deleted NTPs twice now. Only morons would throw out propulsion system that has 2x ISP vs. combustion rocket engines.

      Then again this is mostly due to clueless public thinking science provides „no benefit“ to them.

      which is laughably ignorant of them.

    11. China and Europe will take the lead. Science doesn’t start and end with America.

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