Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ready for launch (www.theregister.com)

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This Telescope Launches Despite and To Spite Fascists.

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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

Nancy Grace

Gross.

Roman

Oh, ok.

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

The US administration's latest funding proposal, which aims to cut even deeper, might get struck down, but even if it does, planning long term (for example, for the Habitable Worlds Observatory – a telescope capable of directly imaging habitable worlds) is becoming complicated when every year brings a new fight over budget.

Listen guys, we can't go blowing taxpayers money on stupid shit like advancing humanitys knowledge of the cosmos we inhabit. We need $140 billion fucking dollars to do meaningful stuff like kick all the brown people out of America....

I fucking hate this place...

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

The folks who made sure to scatter NASA sites across the sun belt ended up being prescient. I mean, proximity to the ocean and the equator was part of it too of course, but does NASA survive the Trump Mk.II missile without politicians in Houston, Canaveral, and Huntsville quietly sanding down the edges of the anti-science agenda so they can have a pork dinner?

Which reminds me, the new season of For All Mankind is fun. Personally, I think

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Dev knows about the automation plan but is specifically trying to get Mera green-lit in time to keep everybody on Mars.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

So glad it's ahead of schedule and ready for launch. Fingers crossed for the other next gen space telescopes too!

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