• sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    Smh they could just give it to me.

    For instance, a building housing Goddard’s ElectroMagnetic Anechoic Chamber (GEMAC), an extremely important piece of equipment for testing spacecraft antennas, is being shuttered.

    Meanwhile the US has been making a big rukus about getting to the moon before China (a race that the Chinese didn’t know they were in, and are basically 20 years ahead of the US in). This is how they will get to the moon.

    The closures could impact the launch of the JWST’s successor, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as well as its Dragonfly program, which is hoping to send a large helicopter to Saturn’s largest moon — concerns that a NASA spokesperson has since denied.

    RIP 🙏

    I can’t even joke about ts.

    A NASA spokesperson told the broadcaster that the closures are all part of an existing “strategic consolidation” plan that shouldn’t impact existing projects.

    Yeah I’m strategically consolidating my assets into the trash can. comrade-raccoon

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      a race that the Chinese didn’t know they were in, and are basically 20 years ahead of the US in

      Exactly! This is also why I’m so frustrated with the whole “space race” narrative in the west. Because

      • a) the USSR didn’t see itself as participating in a race
      • b) it won.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      are basically 20 years ahead of the US in

      China’s 20 years ahead of us in basic infrastructure; I think 20 years is being generous to us (I’m already being generous to us to say that China’s only ahead in infrastructure by 20 years)

      They’re funding the sciences, meanwhile our teachers are springing out of pocket to teach students and Trump’s also decided to dismantle the department of education (which…you know, I’m not sure dems are going to bring back)

        • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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          “You want my taxes payin’ to educate other people’s kids!? If you can’t afford 'em, don’t make 'em! If I don’t have kids, why should I pay for schools!?” -The average American “fiscal conservative” if public schools were a new concept that you were trying to start nowadays.