re: Trump Wants NASA To Visit Jupiter’s Moon Europa And Explore The Solar System Rea

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What are you basing that claim on? Just curious.

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The left thinks the right hates NASA because it's a government program.

The right is inherently nationalist, and beating other countries in high tech shite makes people proud of their country so the right actually loves NASA. Unfortunately the left has used NASA as a glorified weatherman to study polar ice caps and shite in the name of a politically charged issue like global warming. That is just never going to get a lot of funding in congress, especially not from a Republican Congress. Even a democratic controlled congress would only fund climate research enough to be able to say they care. Nobody gets excited about that shite though, not even the left. It's fricking boring.

Trump has a real chance to build the space program to it's former glory here. Building the space program would bring a lot of high paying jobs to a swing state in Florida. Unfortunately I predict the NASA leadership will push back on human exploration. They are personally invested in climate change research and truly believe that should be one of NASA's primary missions. Trump's plan is to transfer earth science to NOAA. NASA will hate this because they look down on NOAA and of course there are a lot of NASA employees who only do earth science.

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Yea. bullshite

People here were incredibly happy that the NASA budget was cut


Want to show some examples?

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Me. frick NASA. If it needs to be explored, Microsoft will do it. NASA isn't some untouchable government organization. They need to go.

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Me. frick NASA. If it needs to be explored, Microsoft will do it. NASA isn't some untouchable government organization. They need to go.

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I like NASA. The space program has spurred a lot of new technologies. In principle I'd agree with you that government does nothing but get in the way but in this case I think reality doesn't align with our principles.

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Consider that for a moment, the United States currently does not have an autonomous functioning program of manned spaceflight at all.

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That doesn't appear to be changing. In fact, Trump's only goal for NASA is for 83 years from today.

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The only thing mentioned so far is to get NASA out of the low earth orbit and earth science business.

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Oil exploration has benefited greatly from NASA's work in that area. I wouldn't knock its' contribution to the economy either.

Trump looking for the transformers

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Who would pay money to explore space when NASA is doing it for them at taxpayers expense?

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No one, that's the point. I'm okay with funding nasa to explore amd create new technologies. This will open up space to private ventures even more. Before farmers and traders came to North America European governments funded exploration missions. Before we built railroads and had cattle drives and mined gold in the west the US government sent Lewis and Clark to explore it. Private industry will take larger risks than the government will in the name of profit IF there is a real prospect of profit.

The space industry is booming right now. New Theoretical electromagnetic drives have been developed by private citizens. One is even going up in space for a test flight next year. Asteroid mining amd space tourism companies have already been formed.

I thought the free market was best... why are we subsidizing this exactly?

Nasa has developed tremendous technology, while preparing for space exploration.

Anything that improves our capabilities for space exploration is a good thing.