That would be sensibly evil, but they're not sensible. They'll hire cranks, not scientists. I know it sounds like an itty-bitty difference, but I'm literally working on a satellite extremely important to landing humans on Mars, and the Administration has asked us to make a plan to brick it.

Their private entities don't want to hire the scientists. They don't like scientists. Scientists are eggheads who might tell 'em they're wrong.

MAVEN, the Mars radiation monitoring mission, was just told to make a decommissioning plan.