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clumsysmurf
Meanwhile, "Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding as the president-elect seeks to shift focus away from home in favor of deep space exploration"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear...

[dead] chronic6l
Good. The US needs to focus on deep space exploration. Our planet is already a lost cause. We need to get the hell out ASAP.
chris_va
Technically that would be up to congress, since the executive branch does not set budgetary policy. Of course, they approve it, so YMMV.
sergers
while this sounds bad, its not really a fact... atleast not yet.

it was a proposal by one of Trumps advisers, guardian of course stating it that it will happen.

just saying... might not.

also there have been plans by republicans to cut funding in past (recent as last year) that was also shot down by support of republicans.

scientific american publish an article (now taken down?) that this guys proposal probably wont be trump's policy.

also maybe i dont know about the specifics, but arent NASA earth sciences (specifically climate research) overlapping NOAA efforts?

nkassis
I'm sure there is overlap. But if were talking about overlap, I think we should be looking at the armed forces for elimination of waste due to overlapp vs small programs (relatively) like NOAA and NASA.
agumonkey
Trump government is such a schrodinger experiment. Right now every bad things may or may not be, we still don't know.
nhaehnle
Well, there are lots of bad things that are already fact, including the seeds of systemic corruption in the form of Trump's business interests. Some of the personnel decisions also fall into that category.

But yes, on a lot of points it's still pretty hard to predict with any confidence what will happen.

ttflee
And Clinton Foundation in an alternative history. It was Douche v.s. Turd.
SpikeDad
Except of course that Clinton Foundation is highly rated by charity monitors and Trump ADMITED on his tax return that Trump Foundation violated federal law. So which reality are you in?
boznz
I try to dig a little bit deeper than the headlines these days and it does look like this will be for "new" earth science projects and that any money would not be removed from NASA budget but be allocated to other (hopefully science not pork) stuff.

Still not good as NASA is the best placed to do this (in the US)

Very Happy for someone to dig deeper and correct me of course as its a tangled mess of click-bait out there!