This argument reminds me of theists asking, "without a god, what is there to keep you from being amoral and running around killing people?" Humans are capable of and do, in fact, act on more than just one or two…
You've probably heard it before, but research and progress go hand in hand, and science is not synonymous with unpractical. For example, data from NASA missions that track water over the globe are used by climate…
But who would have had the idea to make the technology? We don't know what's possible until after we do it. Science research pays dividends in knowledge and technology that we didn't know to look for otherwise.
I don't think it's as simple as that. Many strings were attached, many changes were made to work that had already started. It's a mess to be sure, and NASA was not the only cook in the kitchen by a long shot. I'll just…
At your work you're hopefully not held responsible for the business decisions made above you, just your assigned piece.
A rocket it was told to spend money on by lawmakers. It's not NASA's own creation.
If it were cutting back, I can see your point. This, however, is a gutting. The proposal is a nearly 25% cut in one year to a funding level not seen since 1961. Talent will leave, institutional knowledge will leave, and…
The interview where several billionaires floated the idea of getting rid of congress so that private industry can then somehow operate unfettered.
Tax cuts aren't what people are waiting for to grow their families. It's parental leave, childcare, affordable healthcare, and the feeling that the system their kids will grow up in isn't getting actively gutted in…
The audiologist I went to said tinnitus is anything you can hear that doesn't have an external source. In his case, he's always been able to hear his own heartbeat.
I saw one of those billboards on Ventura Blvd. the other day and wondered what kind of PR scam it was. Who pays for those things? Billboards are pretty expensive around here.
There is a lot of handwaving going on here. The below, however, is an egregious misunderstanding of how percentages work. That, or it betrays very sloppy work. Doing it right would actually make the specific case they…
> Why are you parading your ignorance of my position as an informed rebuttal? Nicely put, but I say ignorance because your post was a flurry of questions asking someone else to tell you information about multiple…
An act can be illegal. I don't see how a person can be illegal. Being in a country illegally is an act, not an inherent property of a person. Trying to say a person is illegal seems like a non-starter for useful…
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If there's bias, I think it comes from people being concerned that there are people coming into various govt. offices, demanding and receiving write/read, non-logging accounts on systems containing sensitive…
Agree. I've been trying to be more proactive in supporting companies and institutions that are doing important work. That includes news organizations that I was previously using archive.ph to read. Vote with your…
I don't think this is lost on anybody, even if it's not the main mission. SMAP also provides a near-real-time data product which may interest people in this area.
A wonderful example of the useful, sometimes unintentional secondary effects of doing science. SMAP as a mission is firmly in the Earth science category, so very much in the crosshairs of the current administration. The…
You didn't cite a source there, but aside from finished products, American companies that make things domestically source many materials from China. I remember a few years ago a news story about a company that makes…
Free oxygen combines with other things very readily, so you need a steady source to replenish it. Abiotic sources may not be common/strong enough. It's been a long time since I've kept tabs on that research, however.
"somewhere along the line it seems like NASA had the ability taken away to advertise properly." This is literally true. JPL had its science communication, education, and outreach teams gutted last year. For that small…
Trump 1 mostly targeted climate and Earth science (when it came to NASA funding). Trump 2/Musk is going after everything. They've just shut down the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA and are planning to cut fully…
They're working on it. NASA HQ has already cut their "Office of the Chief Scientist" (among others) and the current proposal is to cut 50% of the science budget (which would effectively kill it, it's already been…
Fuel will be a huge percentage of the weight, and won't that be mostly exhausted after taking off and then doing a powered descent? The center of gravity will move quite a bit upwards.
This argument reminds me of theists asking, "without a god, what is there to keep you from being amoral and running around killing people?" Humans are capable of and do, in fact, act on more than just one or two…
You've probably heard it before, but research and progress go hand in hand, and science is not synonymous with unpractical. For example, data from NASA missions that track water over the globe are used by climate…
But who would have had the idea to make the technology? We don't know what's possible until after we do it. Science research pays dividends in knowledge and technology that we didn't know to look for otherwise.
I don't think it's as simple as that. Many strings were attached, many changes were made to work that had already started. It's a mess to be sure, and NASA was not the only cook in the kitchen by a long shot. I'll just…
At your work you're hopefully not held responsible for the business decisions made above you, just your assigned piece.
A rocket it was told to spend money on by lawmakers. It's not NASA's own creation.
If it were cutting back, I can see your point. This, however, is a gutting. The proposal is a nearly 25% cut in one year to a funding level not seen since 1961. Talent will leave, institutional knowledge will leave, and…
The interview where several billionaires floated the idea of getting rid of congress so that private industry can then somehow operate unfettered.
Tax cuts aren't what people are waiting for to grow their families. It's parental leave, childcare, affordable healthcare, and the feeling that the system their kids will grow up in isn't getting actively gutted in…
The audiologist I went to said tinnitus is anything you can hear that doesn't have an external source. In his case, he's always been able to hear his own heartbeat.
I saw one of those billboards on Ventura Blvd. the other day and wondered what kind of PR scam it was. Who pays for those things? Billboards are pretty expensive around here.
There is a lot of handwaving going on here. The below, however, is an egregious misunderstanding of how percentages work. That, or it betrays very sloppy work. Doing it right would actually make the specific case they…
> Why are you parading your ignorance of my position as an informed rebuttal? Nicely put, but I say ignorance because your post was a flurry of questions asking someone else to tell you information about multiple…
An act can be illegal. I don't see how a person can be illegal. Being in a country illegally is an act, not an inherent property of a person. Trying to say a person is illegal seems like a non-starter for useful…
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If there's bias, I think it comes from people being concerned that there are people coming into various govt. offices, demanding and receiving write/read, non-logging accounts on systems containing sensitive…
Agree. I've been trying to be more proactive in supporting companies and institutions that are doing important work. That includes news organizations that I was previously using archive.ph to read. Vote with your…
I don't think this is lost on anybody, even if it's not the main mission. SMAP also provides a near-real-time data product which may interest people in this area.
A wonderful example of the useful, sometimes unintentional secondary effects of doing science. SMAP as a mission is firmly in the Earth science category, so very much in the crosshairs of the current administration. The…
You didn't cite a source there, but aside from finished products, American companies that make things domestically source many materials from China. I remember a few years ago a news story about a company that makes…
Free oxygen combines with other things very readily, so you need a steady source to replenish it. Abiotic sources may not be common/strong enough. It's been a long time since I've kept tabs on that research, however.
"somewhere along the line it seems like NASA had the ability taken away to advertise properly." This is literally true. JPL had its science communication, education, and outreach teams gutted last year. For that small…
Trump 1 mostly targeted climate and Earth science (when it came to NASA funding). Trump 2/Musk is going after everything. They've just shut down the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA and are planning to cut fully…
They're working on it. NASA HQ has already cut their "Office of the Chief Scientist" (among others) and the current proposal is to cut 50% of the science budget (which would effectively kill it, it's already been…
Fuel will be a huge percentage of the weight, and won't that be mostly exhausted after taking off and then doing a powered descent? The center of gravity will move quite a bit upwards.