'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch (www.space.com)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz on 21 Feb 19:17
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Rooskie91@discuss.online on 21 Feb 19:35 next collapse

Because efficiency is leaving a $10b telescope floating in space like a piece of junk.

ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Feb 20:22 collapse

Efficiency is when the government abandons all its investments, lets everything fall apart, and drives all scientists to take jobs abroad before the next uncontrolled pandemic paralyzes the country.

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 20:29 collapse

It’s going to be measles or some other preventable disease

ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 Feb 20:45 next collapse

It’ll most likely be avian flu, which is pretty bad. The Trump people are trying to ban MRNA vaccines and cut the vaccine research that might have helped with it.

ZeroPoke@fedia.io on 21 Feb 20:47 collapse

Then its war with Canada to distract from the disease and to take their resources. #IWantOffThisRide

Asafum@feddit.nl on 21 Feb 19:48 next collapse

Every day these people find a new way for me to hate them with a fucking burning passion.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 21 Feb 19:50 next collapse

We should sell to SpaceX for cheap since NASA can't do anything right!

Did not they do this with space lunch too lol

Gut it from the inside, then provide tech and talent to a corpo who then charges you for the services you knew how to do in house...

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 21 Feb 20:03 collapse

I have no idea why you got downvoted for pointing out the obvious scam. I guess the sarcasm didn’t translate well.

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Feb 19:52 next collapse

Fermi- MAGA-Paradox

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 20:25 next collapse

Space X is going to steal the 20% (probably more).

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 21 Feb 21:41 collapse

Elon is probably mad it launched on an Ariane 5 and it went so perfectly, we’ll get an extra decade of science out of it.

The Ariane 5 really was a reliable rocket. It had some failures early on, like basically all rockets, but then it had 82 successful launches in a row and then one partial failure before having another long perfect streak.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c41d971-9cec-4bbe-81ef-32d8a246c2d5.jpeg">

Obviously, more expensive than modern reusable rockets but JWST was important enough of a payload, that I’m glad NASA/ESA chose Ariane. (Plus, given JWST’s delays, I imagine when that decision was made, SpaceX was still iterating and having occasional explosions.)