I work on one of these telescopes. Got the news today thay they're trying to close Goddard, and the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, and basically all Earth observing satellite work. It would completely upend our ability to predict 7 day weather, extreme weather events like hurricanes, and make science basically inaccessible from space. I'm surprised they aren't moving the funding over to SpaceX entirely.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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Itβs fucking heartbreaking to see, as an astronomy and astrophysics enthusiast.
At the same time, I hope that the loss in weather prediction capabilities leads to catastrophic damage to Mar a Lago and as many other of his properties as possible. And I admit that thereβs a part of me thatβs quite gleeful at the prospect of the maga-leaning parts of the country getting absolutely fucked by unexpected weather phenomena that will escalate in frequency and severity. Maybe itβll render a bunch of those votersβ¦ unable to vote going forward, if you get my drift.
This is awful. Iβm so sorry.
Now we lost the space information and science race. Now, there wonβt be sharing globally about scientific space breakthroughs. Now, those countries that do make those breakthroughs will sell us the information once itβs no longer relevant.
Of course they are
How did I have bad luck enough to end up in the stupidest timeline?
They shot that fucking gorilla. That is how.
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No, it was Bowie
JWST, being an Infrared telescope, is the successor to Spitzer.
Nancy Grace Roman, being an optical telescope, is the successor to Hubble.
Infrared telescopes have fundamentally worse resolution than their optical counterparts. The difference in image quality is so great that most people haven't even heard of Spitzer compared to Hubble. Now imagine the step up from Webb to Roman.
In walks SpaceX I presume. Or heβll make TelescopeX
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No need to see anything when you can just generate random bullshit.
You canβt fix stupid. π€¦π»ββοΈ
I don't think stupidity is the driver here. This is all very deliberate.
Yeah, the Christ fanatics hate science and find science to be their bitter enemy, essentially
Yes, you can. With a shotgun.
who needs science when you make your own truth?
The only thing in life that I'm actually really passionate about... Cool stuff.
This administration finds new ways for me to wish for their death every day.
caveman time
Figures. The fucking cunt has orders to follow.
"keeping his promise to restore America's proud legacy of leadership in space"
So depressing.
The extra stupid thing is that they'll probably won't save anything in the next 4 years anyways with how long timelines are for space planning. They'll just waste an incredible amount of investment. This is just such petty and cruel retaliation against anything related to climate science.
They just enjoy smashing stuff others value for no reason.
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