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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-faces-20-percent-budget-cuts
Rooskie91 @discuss.online - 10mon

Because efficiency is leaving a $10b telescope floating in space like a piece of junk.

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ploot @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 10mon

Efficiency is when the government abandons all its investments, lets everything fall apart, and drives all scientists to take jobs abroad before the next uncontrolled pandemic paralyzes the country.

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Theoriginalthon @lemmy.world - 10mon

It's going to be measles or some other preventable disease

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ploot @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 10mon

It'll most likely be avian flu, which is pretty bad. The Trump people are trying to ban MRNA vaccines and cut the vaccine research that might have helped with it.

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ZeroPoke - 10mon

Then its war with Canada to distract from the disease and to take their resources. #IWantOffThisRide

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Asafum @feddit.nl - 10mon

Every day these people find a new way for me to hate them with a fucking burning passion.

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres @lemmy.world - 10mon

Elon is probably mad it launched on an Ariane 5 and it went so perfectly, we’ll get an extra decade of science out of it.

The Ariane 5 really was a reliable rocket. It had some failures early on, like basically all rockets, but then it had 82 successful launches in a row and then one partial failure before having another long perfect streak.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c41d971-9cec-4bbe-81ef-32d8a246c2d5.jpeg

Obviously, more expensive than modern reusable rockets but JWST was important enough of a payload, that I’m glad NASA/ESA chose Ariane. (Plus, given JWST’s delays, I imagine when that decision was made, SpaceX was still iterating and having occasional explosions.)

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5714 @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 10mon

Fermi- MAGA-Paradox

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😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈 - 10mon

Space X is going to steal the 20% (probably more).

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