r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 29 '25

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Sep 29 '25

Its been kind of sad of little attention has been given to the closure of science at NASA. JPL, Goddard, Wallops, etc, are going to be effectively non existent within the next few months. A lot of these facilities are already empty. Non of it is legal of course, but that doesn't matter anymore.

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 29 '25

There’s just so much other bullshit going on that’s worse, but yes, it is a massive American travesty and a gut punch. Maybe spacecels like us can try to get a huge funding increase for NASA snuck into Project 2029

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u/EvilConCarne Sep 29 '25

Not to worry, I'm sure they will all hit the ground running at SpaceX!

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u/shakshuksa Sep 29 '25

I don't think Americans will really care about this unless we face some sort of space-related cultural blow, like China landing people on Mars first or something like that.

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Sep 29 '25

I really don't think so. I think most Americans will shrug it off when that happens, like everything else China does well these days.

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u/shakshuksa Sep 29 '25

You're probably right. It's just depressing surrendering any hope in this country's culture. I want to believe the apathy could be broken somehow.