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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent (arstechnica.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, the government agency with literally the best long term ROI by an order of magnitude is getting its budget cut. Cool cool cool.

[–] derzeppo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Well the IRS is about the same at $7 revenue per $1 spent, but yeah.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

That should help to put a flag on Mars.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

i love how they are basically handing soft power and future dominance over to china.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Woah! We just found a FREE half of Nasa's Budget not being used! We should GIVE IT to President Elon Musk!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Get rid of Elmo.