About the leaked NASA budget proposal that kills an almost-ready-to-launch flagship mission: "It sets back a program that is clearly the leading program in the world—in a historic fashion. You take that program and shoot it through the head." www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa... - ThreadSky

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nadiadrake.bsky.social • 26 days ago

About the leaked NASA budget proposal that kills an almost-ready-to-launch flagship mission: "It sets back a program that is clearly the leading program in the world—in a historic fashion. You take that program and shoot it through the head."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-next-major-space-telescope-is-ready-to-launch-trump-wants-to-kill-it/

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keltica.bsky.social•26 days ago

Donald likely didn't give more than a nanosecond's thought to killing the funding for this project, but undoubtedly the main reason is because the telescope's named after a woman...too DEI for the Trump kakistocracy.

pemo.bsky.social•26 days ago

I was thinking the same. Rename it to DTST, launch it, and rename it back 🤷🏻‍♀️ Some people just want to be pranked

ireidani.bsky.social•21 days ago

Everything Trump does makes sense if you start with the assumeption that he is an agent of a hostile foreign power.

elnosnusk.bsky.social•26 days ago

This hits hard.

backstop5.bsky.social•26 days ago

Just change the name to a manly man non-DEI name and it'll be good /s

jonathan-doupe.bsky.social•25 days ago

The easiest way out of this is to just call it the Nancy Grace Telescope. Trump must've liked that show.

dawazangpo.bsky.social•26 days ago

Elon desperately needs your $.

spaceart.bsky.social•26 days ago

He’s targeting intellectuals: professors, writers, doctors, scientists, etc. it’s his way to show contempt and humble us. Take our grants, crush our universities, scrap our space missions. Thank god Clipper launched.