White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
futurism.com
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/45614563

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5763205

One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they’d been providing had been “of exceptionally high quality.”

The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.

(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it “makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data,” pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency’s $25.4 billion budget.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The irony is that the MAGA slogan “America First” actually puts America behind other nations consistently. The irony behind the MAGA belief that Trump puts American workers first is that all his policies prioritize the interests of the very people they hate and want him to dismantle: the uber-rich “Elite.” MAGA voters are some of the dumbest, most gullible Americans in the country, and I personally think they simply vote for the politicians they do because said politicians fly the same bigotry flags they support: anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-racial-equality, etc. In other words, MAGA is basically just America’s bigots rallying under an “America First” banner, which is code for”straight, white Americans first.” So sad I know people who support this crap and don’t realize they’re falling in with the worst America has to offer.

    • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
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      6 days ago

      These people are seriously the dumbest. The other day I was told that “finally Trump is fixing this shit” and that “tariffs are the price for doing business” and that I “have to pay them and can no longer freeload by spending money on healthcare”. Didn’t get an answer when I asked if he even knows how tariffs work and why it could possibly be that USA spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation in the world

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    So not burning our tax money this time, exploding it. Thats Progress.

    Its all about appreciating the slightly less awful outcome.

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Donny 2 Dolls is an enemy to humanity, and to children in particular.

    Release ALL the unredacted Epstein Files!!!

  • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world could unite and just remove USA from the map. Humanity might survive if it’d happen, but in the end, we all know we’re going to burn together.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    They’ll be cutting off funding for the program as well. So why not… move it to Canada or Germany?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        7 days ago

        He’s already had a fit with Canada. If his response continues to be to raise tariffs until all the affected sectors of the US economy just move to Canada to avoid them….

        • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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          7 days ago

          With any luck some of their military production facilities will move here to avoid the tariffs, and then when things kick off we can nationalize the bastards

  • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute… I don’t think you guys understand what this means, please don’t blow up the domes.