RIP NASA Earth Sciences division
>Republicans and denialists work over decades through politics, lobbying to politicize climate change
>Trump decides that NASA is politicized (the ironing) and will cut funding because of this (even though doing so is a completely political move on his part).
This is going to be a long 4 years lads, especially for those of us invested in Earth Sciences.
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>Bob Walker, a senior Trump campaign adviser, said there was no need for NASA to do what he has previously described as “politically correct environmental monitoring"
You cannot make this shit up.
“My guess is that it would be difficult to stop all ongoing NASA programs but future programs should definitely be placed with other agencies. I believe that climate research is necessary but it has been heavily politicized, which has undermined a lot of the work that researchers have been doing. Mr Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science.”
How far up his own asshole is this guy's head? Do these people live in an alternate reality or something?
It's the beginning of the end for anti-science fags. You'll have to endure 4 years, but things will (hopefully) get better after that.
eh, NASA deserves its budget being cut. No one gives a fuck about landing a few robots on mars except a few autists. He's just targeting the wrong division.
>long 4 years lads
or you know, trump might decide that there is a lot of money to be made by setting up TRUMP vacation resorts on the moon and Mars and dedicate 50% of the military budget to it annually until by the end of 4 years we have said resorts and the space tourism infrastructure to support it.
Also he could decide to make America great again by making it a national priority to begin harvesting the asteroid belt for heavy metals and setting up orbital refineries and automated retrieval space drone probes to identify and bring back appropriate asteroids.
Or he could just shut down NASA to give the top 0.01% of income earners in America an income tax cut of 0.05%.
Hard to say.
>eh, NASA deserves its budget being cut. No one gives a fuck about landing a few robots on mars except a few autists. He's just targeting the wrong division.
its not like you would see any tangible benefit from the elimination of NASA from the federal budget. Tax cuts for the working and middle classes are not on the agenda of the lawmakers in Washington.
>assuming i'm peasant class
And why the hell did you quote my entire post?
I wasn't saying it in hopes i would have my taxes lowered. In fact, completely cutting NASA off would have very little effect on my taxes. I just don't think we should waste money.
>pretending to be wealthy on the internet
>I just don't think we should waste money.
Its my opinion feeding starving people in other countries is a waste of money. And that having a military that takes up more than 50% of the federal discretionary spending budget is a waste of money and that tax cuts for oil companies who are already some of the most profitable on earth are a waste of money.
Pushing the boundaries of science and technology and into space is investment in the future of my species, not a waste of money, in my opinion.
Just my opinion.
Your opinion must seem completely valid to you from your point of view.
The sheer amount of dumbest-common-denominator propaganda is so suspicious that it already triggers the instinctive bullshit detector of the common man.
who gives a shit about earth science.