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Reply to comment by SexyOldHobo in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
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Just_Michael1138 t1_j2tl8ok wrote
Reply to comment by jjayzx in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Not to mention loses money. DoD lost another 2 Trillion. Bet that would have funded NASA for a year or three.
ShadyRedditInvestor t1_j2tl3qf wrote
Reply to comment by dern_the_hermit in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
I don't think you understand what "no, if you want to use items we retired for safety reasons to launch humans into space in order to line your own pockets, build it yourself" means. They can't force NASA to do shit, or they're going to find themselves with a lack of rocket scientists as they all flee to private companies.
This is actually the way to go, as the US government and by extension NASA have proven themselves completely incapable.
jjayzx t1_j2tkui9 wrote
Reply to comment by Just_Michael1138 in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
On what? The US pisses away money left and right.
dern_the_hermit t1_j2thayf wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
I don't think you understand how Federal funding works, and it's entirely due to lazy thinking.
Disruption0 t1_j2tf396 wrote
Reply to comment by disturbednadir in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Wait what?
Plusran t1_j2tesmk wrote
“Yeah, oh that’s a good title. Why don’t you use the flying lawn chair for that one?”
Just_Michael1138 t1_j2tdkv2 wrote
Wait, didn't we just piss away like 100 billion...?
Stock_Success8867 t1_j2tcw3d wrote
They have black budget projects in space so this is kinda misinformation
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SexyOldHobo t1_j2t6f81 wrote
What if I told you communists were interested in planetary science?
electro1ight t1_j2swsp9 wrote
Reply to comment by bookers555 in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Yeah. And change their mind every 5 seconds. First it was supposed to resupply the ISS then go to Mars, then jk go yo the moon. So nasa said fuck y'all and built a swiss army knife that coulddd do all 3. Even if it took longer.
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ShadyRedditInvestor t1_j2shzpm wrote
Reply to comment by RollinThundaga in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Let em shoot themselves in the foot, rather than lining their pockets with unlimited blank checks.
RollinThundaga t1_j2sguqd wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
They can fire anyone who refuses
disturbednadir t1_j2sf88z wrote
Reminder, the US Navy pays more money to keep the rust off of mothballed WWII fleet than NASA's entire budget.
ShadyRedditInvestor t1_j2sf6rv wrote
Reply to comment by RollinThundaga in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
"sorry, those parts are not functional for a space mission, we've been waiting to scrap them".
You think the senate is going to go and put them together themselves?
RollinThundaga t1_j2sebvm wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
You don't just say no to a congressional mandate written into your funding bill.
ShadyRedditInvestor t1_j2sd6ck wrote
Reply to comment by RollinThundaga in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Congress has a 3rd grade understanding of space. They could have literally said "no, that stuff is proven to be unsafe"
Instead we got the senate launch system.
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RollinThundaga t1_j2sbbj3 wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Yes, because the alternative was ignoring a direct order from Congress to do so.
"You were sure ready to shoot that armed home invader, huh?" This is what you sound like.
UpintheExosphere t1_j2tq1qn wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
The budget that went to SLS is completely separate from NASA's planetary science budget. There are different divisions for human spaceflight, earth missions, heliophysics, astronomy, planetary science, etc.