Stay excited and remember DT probably thinks NASA’s budget could be trimmed (read – eliminated). He only interested in space if you can attack someone or blow them up.
Reaching for the stars, no matter where, what or how, takes resources and large coordinated programs, at NASA or NIH or NSF or wherever. That means you inevitably get to politics for funding and prioritizing. Get real, Brain Pudding, and maybe use the brain you are claiming to have.
Leave it to certain individuals to take a nonpolitical strip and immediately turn it political. @martens – Anything can be made political if you want it to. It’s just nice to escape it at times. Why turn to personal attacks? @Darsan54 – Your hatred is obvious. Makes me think you are nothing more than a troll, saying outlandish, irrelevant things to get a response. Hope you at least get some sort of happiness from it.
Well, Stantis has exaggerated a little bit here, since the fly-by is not for another 80 days. However, last week New Horizons did make a small course correction in preparation for the fly-by. Which is exciting, but does not indicate imminent wonders, so Carmen might be a little disappointed. Still, good for Stantis for promoting interest in the mission.
In the meantime, still no word from Opportunity on Mars. The duration of the dust storm has no doubt killed it.The Curiosity Rover has a 1909 penny mounted vertically, which is used for camera calibration. After only 14 monhs on Mars it was a bit dusty. One can only imagine what Opportunity looks like…
Not only did NASA get a lot of money,* Congress outright rejected most of the White House’s controversial cuts. The four Earth science missions targeted for cancellation survived, the education office wasn’t axed, and the planetary science division got its biggest budget this century.* To quote my colleague, Casey Dreier: “Every Planetary Society member should be elated with this news.” He’s not exaggerating!
And it wasn’t just NASA that scored big. Just look at this breakdown of federal science funding: It’s stunning. Many of the agencies Trump’s White House wanted to cut got increases instead. And ones that didn’t get increases, like NOAA and the EPA, at least managed to avoid proposed cuts. Heck, the budget even gives the National Science Foundation three new ocean research vessels!
When the White House’s 2018 budget proposal came out, it was seen as nothing less than a War On Science. The question was: Would a Republican-held Congress go along with the plan? There is a well-documented history of Republican disdain toward regulatory agencies like the EPA, and the climate change research conducted by programs like NASA’s Earth science division. Trump gave the GOP a big chance to dramatically scale back some of these programs.
But this only happened because
in order to increase the defense budget, Congress needed to raise [defense] spending caps, and also increase the debt ceiling. And Republicans don’t have enough of a majority to break a filibuster, so they need the Democrats’ help. Democrats, in turn, insisted that if caps were raised for defense, they had to be raised for non-defense as well.
Basically Darsan is correct: Trump and his cronies wanted to cripple science, the enemy to their and their supporters’ delusions.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Stay excited and remember DT probably thinks NASA’s budget could be trimmed (read – eliminated). He only interested in space if you can attack someone or blow them up.
Brain Pudding over 5 years ago
Keep reaching for the stars kid…and ignore those space cadets who think everything is about politics….(talkin bout you Darsan54)
martens over 5 years ago
Reaching for the stars, no matter where, what or how, takes resources and large coordinated programs, at NASA or NIH or NSF or wherever. That means you inevitably get to politics for funding and prioritizing. Get real, Brain Pudding, and maybe use the brain you are claiming to have.
tiffnme Premium Member over 5 years ago
Leave it to certain individuals to take a nonpolitical strip and immediately turn it political. @martens – Anything can be made political if you want it to. It’s just nice to escape it at times. Why turn to personal attacks? @Darsan54 – Your hatred is obvious. Makes me think you are nothing more than a troll, saying outlandish, irrelevant things to get a response. Hope you at least get some sort of happiness from it.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 5 years ago
Well, Stantis has exaggerated a little bit here, since the fly-by is not for another 80 days. However, last week New Horizons did make a small course correction in preparation for the fly-by. Which is exciting, but does not indicate imminent wonders, so Carmen might be a little disappointed. Still, good for Stantis for promoting interest in the mission.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20181005
In the meantime, still no word from Opportunity on Mars. The duration of the dust storm has no doubt killed it.The Curiosity Rover has a 1909 penny mounted vertically, which is used for camera calibration. After only 14 monhs on Mars it was a bit dusty. One can only imagine what Opportunity looks like…
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/900/lucky-penny-on-mars/
In other news, another lander made it onto Ryugu. a veritable rubble pile if there ever was one…
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-blogs/astronomy-space-david-dickinson/mascot-deploys-from-hayabusa-2-lands-on-ryugu/
Voyager 2 continues to send back data as it approaches the heliopause.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 5 years ago
As for Trump and science, read this:
Not only did NASA get a lot of money,* Congress outright rejected most of the White House’s controversial cuts. The four Earth science missions targeted for cancellation survived, the education office wasn’t axed, and the planetary science division got its biggest budget this century.* To quote my colleague, Casey Dreier: “Every Planetary Society member should be elated with this news.” He’s not exaggerating!
And it wasn’t just NASA that scored big. Just look at this breakdown of federal science funding: It’s stunning. Many of the agencies Trump’s White House wanted to cut got increases instead. And ones that didn’t get increases, like NOAA and the EPA, at least managed to avoid proposed cuts. Heck, the budget even gives the National Science Foundation three new ocean research vessels!
When the White House’s 2018 budget proposal came out, it was seen as nothing less than a War On Science. The question was: Would a Republican-held Congress go along with the plan? There is a well-documented history of Republican disdain toward regulatory agencies like the EPA, and the climate change research conducted by programs like NASA’s Earth science division. Trump gave the GOP a big chance to dramatically scale back some of these programs.
But this only happened because
in order to increase the defense budget, Congress needed to raise [defense] spending caps, and also increase the debt ceiling. And Republicans don’t have enough of a majority to break a filibuster, so they need the Democrats’ help. Democrats, in turn, insisted that if caps were raised for defense, they had to be raised for non-defense as well.
Basically Darsan is correct: Trump and his cronies wanted to cripple science, the enemy to their and their supporters’ delusions.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2018/20180328-nasa-science-good-budget.html