"NASA has also invited proposals from universities and corporations to take over the cost of collecting and analyzing the data from OCO-3, aboard the ISS, so there’s that, too."
Trump will just defund any universities and take away tax breaks from any corporation that does so.
Can’t they crash some old satellite that’s no longer used and just tell the Fanta Führer it was the OCO? They can use it again after the regime is gone, or just transfer control to a less insane/stupid country.
BTW, Substack (not just Wonkette) seems to have a problem now where I can’t post comments from a computer with any browser. At least the phone app is working.
That was one thought I had as well. Sell it to a stable country with a vested stake in averting climate disaster. Hell, just transfer ownership for free. Since they're being ordered to crash it anyway, it's not like they'd lose anything.
Omg, I would die if I wasn't able to comment from my computer! (I HATE typing on a phone and my eyes are so shit now that I really hate doing ANYTHING on my phone.)
Yeah, I can't stand typing on a phone, either. OK for reading, but not for interaction. It's a bit like trying to drive a car using a donut as the steering wheel.
Touch screens in general are awful for typing. A tablet will have nearly a full size keyboard on the screen, but it's horrible to try to type with it.
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Trump may think (which is asking a lot... I doubt he thinks) that the "free market" will pick up the OCO project .. like Musk or somebody, but wouldn't be surprised to see the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians... heck, the Brazilians.. to pick up the project. Better still, I expect all the other counties with space agencies to start poaching NASA's people.
The sooner the better. It's not like they're appreciated here anymore. We need them to be able to do their work, even if it's in another country.
I say this as one whose parents allowed me as a small child to stay up with them until the wee hours of the morning to watch the first moon landing in 1969, and who became an avid fan of outer space in early elementary school. I still remember the cover of my third grade science textbook - a splendid rendition of the solar system in vivid color. The planets, the sun, the stars in the background. I was hooked on science and space exploration from a very early age. If we lose NASA, I hope it is at least to another country.
As long as it's COLLECTED, and preserved. And no useful expensive satellites are destroyed for no good reason except the Vile Orange Cretin's fragile ego.
Maybe (and I know this is no guarantee) someday we will be able to use that data again, and it would be a good thing to have an uninterrupted stream to work with.
This is all very sad. President TACO want to slash NASA's budget in half, targeting mostly their scientific missions while leaving the big drains, like the SLS rocket and Orion alone. NASA doesn't have a big budget and cutting it in half only destroys the serious work scientists are doing, Meanwhile billions (with a B) are being wasted on disappearing harmless immigrants, harassing universities and coating the White House in gold. The Vandals are in the house.
I know. Suicide ideation (no, I am not implying that is what you mean, I am just relating to a sense of hopelessness) has taken hold with me. Sometimes I wonder "why go on." The only thing stopping me is my death would make me another doormat for MAGA.
I understand your pain. Please, please don't give up. I've been there.
I wonder if the Democrats could institute a legal action to charge Vought, Duffy, and Trump personally for the cost of the satellites and instruments, and destruction of government property and get a lien slapped on them to freeze, and then sieze, their personal assets to pay the damages.
It's what Texas Rethugs would do. There are plenty of rational, law-abiding, progressive judges out there.
Step up and bring an Uzi to this knife-fight, Democrats!!!
NASA should take a page from the TRADE NEGOTIATIONS playbook and just tell the Mad King that they burned it up over Russia just to freak them out while actually leaving it parked in orbit until sanity and justice return to the US. Then we can go back to science as God intended.
After all, it didn't take long for the rest of the world to tell that moron how much they really appreciated the opportunity to pinky-swear that they were going to invest all the billion$ in his bullshit ideas and buy all the things and here's a piece of paper that outlines the concept of the plan and you can go now your magnificence...
It's part of the environmental hoax, THEREFORE...
May I suggest the following splash-down coordinates... https://www.mapquest.com/us/florida/mar-a-lago-club-466266000
👏👏👏👏👏
HELL YEAH!
"NASA has also invited proposals from universities and corporations to take over the cost of collecting and analyzing the data from OCO-3, aboard the ISS, so there’s that, too."
Trump will just defund any universities and take away tax breaks from any corporation that does so.
JFC. Who is going to stop the insanity spewing from the tRump White House ?
Can’t they crash some old satellite that’s no longer used and just tell the Fanta Führer it was the OCO? They can use it again after the regime is gone, or just transfer control to a less insane/stupid country.
BTW, Substack (not just Wonkette) seems to have a problem now where I can’t post comments from a computer with any browser. At least the phone app is working.
Yes, crash an obsolete satellite. Trumpy is too stupid to know the difference.
That was one thought I had as well. Sell it to a stable country with a vested stake in averting climate disaster. Hell, just transfer ownership for free. Since they're being ordered to crash it anyway, it's not like they'd lose anything.
I had a Disqus problem last week where I couldn't post from a phone but could from a desktop/laptop.
Omg, I would die if I wasn't able to comment from my computer! (I HATE typing on a phone and my eyes are so shit now that I really hate doing ANYTHING on my phone.)
Yeah, I can't stand typing on a phone, either. OK for reading, but not for interaction. It's a bit like trying to drive a car using a donut as the steering wheel.
Touch screens in general are awful for typing. A tablet will have nearly a full size keyboard on the screen, but it's horrible to try to type with it.
Can someone stop Trump from making me sad all the time? I don't like it.
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Co2 really, if you want to stop it, get rid of the people
SAVE THE PLANET KILL YOURSELF
Fixed
I've already considered suicide, thankyouverymuch. And decided against it because that means Trumpy, MAA, and the Christian Nationalists win.
No. I will not hand them even that miniscule victory
Go help Gaza and take that pride flag with you
Just made my case, FU
sore loser libtard and your blocked
Trump may think (which is asking a lot... I doubt he thinks) that the "free market" will pick up the OCO project .. like Musk or somebody, but wouldn't be surprised to see the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians... heck, the Brazilians.. to pick up the project. Better still, I expect all the other counties with space agencies to start poaching NASA's people.
The sooner the better. It's not like they're appreciated here anymore. We need them to be able to do their work, even if it's in another country.
I say this as one whose parents allowed me as a small child to stay up with them until the wee hours of the morning to watch the first moon landing in 1969, and who became an avid fan of outer space in early elementary school. I still remember the cover of my third grade science textbook - a splendid rendition of the solar system in vivid color. The planets, the sun, the stars in the background. I was hooked on science and space exploration from a very early age. If we lose NASA, I hope it is at least to another country.
And we won't be able to use data from other countries because it's not proper AMERICAN data and is therefore tainted and biased.
As long as it's COLLECTED, and preserved. And no useful expensive satellites are destroyed for no good reason except the Vile Orange Cretin's fragile ego.
Maybe (and I know this is no guarantee) someday we will be able to use that data again, and it would be a good thing to have an uninterrupted stream to work with.
At least then Trump can't fire whoever put the data together. "Always look on the bright side,"
THIS
To be fair I threw out my bathroom scale when it lied about me putting on weight.
Lots of people do that, myself included. The difference being, an individual's weight does not affect an entire planet.
NPR says, “It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions”
Were they asleep in 2020 when TFG said, "If We Stop Testing, We'd Have Fewer Cases"?
You'd think that NPR could take off the gloves now and shiv the bothsiderism bullshit they have had to do in the past.
Just every time they mention PAB, preface the word "president" with "34-time convicted felon and alleged child molester."
Just every time they mention PAB, preface the word "president" with "34-time convicted felon and alleged child molester."
YES, YES, and HELL YEAH ! ! ! ! ! !
Some of NPR's "corporate contributions" are fossil fuel companies
Please forgive - I thought we'd had this discussion already
This is all very sad. President TACO want to slash NASA's budget in half, targeting mostly their scientific missions while leaving the big drains, like the SLS rocket and Orion alone. NASA doesn't have a big budget and cutting it in half only destroys the serious work scientists are doing, Meanwhile billions (with a B) are being wasted on disappearing harmless immigrants, harassing universities and coating the White House in gold. The Vandals are in the house.
Give the $45 billion for ICE to NASA instead so they can build a giant catapult so we can relocate MAGA to the lunar surface.
No space suits. Oxygen is for losers!
I just can't. Every day is somehow worse than the last.
I know. Suicide ideation (no, I am not implying that is what you mean, I am just relating to a sense of hopelessness) has taken hold with me. Sometimes I wonder "why go on." The only thing stopping me is my death would make me another doormat for MAGA.
I understand your pain. Please, please don't give up. I've been there.
I wonder if the Democrats could institute a legal action to charge Vought, Duffy, and Trump personally for the cost of the satellites and instruments, and destruction of government property and get a lien slapped on them to freeze, and then sieze, their personal assets to pay the damages.
It's what Texas Rethugs would do. There are plenty of rational, law-abiding, progressive judges out there.
Step up and bring an Uzi to this knife-fight, Democrats!!!
Now there's an idea I get behind.
I'm more for nukes, but that's cuz I'm grrrr mad.
NASA should take a page from the TRADE NEGOTIATIONS playbook and just tell the Mad King that they burned it up over Russia just to freak them out while actually leaving it parked in orbit until sanity and justice return to the US. Then we can go back to science as God intended.
After all, it didn't take long for the rest of the world to tell that moron how much they really appreciated the opportunity to pinky-swear that they were going to invest all the billion$ in his bullshit ideas and buy all the things and here's a piece of paper that outlines the concept of the plan and you can go now your magnificence...
i definetly remember an inanimate carbon rod saving the day in space once.
Guess "we" don't care or "we" would stop him from breaking THE FUCKING LAW!!!
"We" have been disempowered and disenfranchised.