Tragedy upon tragedy. Destroy everything that made post-WW2 America a great nation. So Orwellian to call yourself the opposite of what you plan to do.
Tragedy upon tragedy. Destroy everything that made post-WW2 America a great nation. So Orwellian to call yourself the opposite of what you plan to do.
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Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
The sad part is I doubt these cuts will be fully reversed, even in a Democratic administration. I'd be surprised if even a quarter of the positions lost now will be refilled.
Hope is the denial of reality
And even if they are, they won't be filled by the same people, so that's god knows how much institutional knowledge and skill lost permanently
Last edited by Steely Glint; 08-01-2025 at 08:58 AM.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Case in point:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1...-2026-midtermsThere's also a growing consensus from Democratic officeholders that the party's reaction to the Trump administration's efforts to cut government programs, fire workers and radically reshape the federal government should not be reflexively undoing it.
In his interview with NPR, Buttigieg said the president was wrong to cut the Department of Education and USAID funding, for example.
"But it's also wrong to suppose that if Democrats come back to power, our project should be to just tape the pieces together just the way that they were," he said. "We should be unsentimental about the things that don't work. We should be fearless in defending the things that do work. And yes, we should be naming the forces, entities, people, often corporations, who stand between a lot of Americans in a better, freer life."
Hope is the denial of reality
classic demsThere's also a growing consensus from Democratic officeholders that the party's reaction to the Trump administration's efforts to cut government programs, fire workers and radically reshape the federal government should not be reflexively undoing it.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
fully addicted to loser shit :')Originally Posted by Steely Glint
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Has anyone seen the evidence for early microbial life they found on Mars? It's pretty solid stuff, as far as I can tell (even PBS is like, yeah, its a big deal). There's no good explanation for the mineral formations other than microbes metabolizing iron. So, assuming it ever gets confirmed, what does it mean? I'm thinking this:
A. It might mean nothing, could be a meteor from Earth seeded Mars or vice versa, leaving still just one instance of Origin of Life and changing nothing.
Or.
B. It means life is probably super freaking common and the universe, with all its many worlds, is probably awash in it. And... if that's the case, then the Fermi Paradox answers narrow, giving more weight to the Great Filter concept. And... is that filter in our past, or in our future. These days its not difficult to believe its in our very near future, but that could be the news industry weighing on me.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
And New Glenn's second launch gets scrubbed. I'd like to see a second billionaire rocket company begin to compete with Musk, so kinda rooting for a successful launch. Still, god help me, loving SpaceX's Starship Program though.... sigh. Life is so complicated.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
https://futurism.com/space/nasa-staf...ipment-garbageAs the US federal government’s shutdown drags on, NASA staffers are raising concerns over a dozen buildings on its Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) main campus in Maryland being emptied without notice.
The campus serves as the headquarters for some extremely important missions, including NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash, according to internal communications reviewed by CNN. For instance, a building housing Goddard’s ElectroMagnetic Anechoic Chamber (GEMAC), an extremely important piece of equipment for testing spacecraft antennas, is being shuttered.
Hope is the denial of reality
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