- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- astronomy@mander.xyz
Summary
The White House unexpectedly decided not to terminate over 1,000 probationary NASA employees on Tuesday, despite similar cuts at other federal agencies.
NASA had requested exemptions, but it’s unclear why the reprieve was granted. Some speculate that Jared Isaacman, Trump’s nominee to lead NASA, may have intervened.
While this decision spares employees for now, the administration is still considering significant workforce reductions in the coming months.
NASA field centers have been instructed to prepare for possible layoffs, though final decisions may require congressional approval.
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Musk realized at the last minute that NASA is one of his (SpaceX’s) biggest customers! Whew that was a close one there!
Nah, it was just blatantly bad optics.
Lol optics? The only thing they care less about is us.
Both
Yay, I guess.
Imagine the morale there. No one’s going to give a fuck there now, and fair enough.
We think airplanes crashing is bad for PR. A Nasa failure being credited to Trump would be catastrophic.
Why? Nothing sticks to Trump. Nothing bad that happens is going to be his fault, ever, in the glazed eyes of his moronic followers. He’s firing a bunch of educated weenies? Nice! Got ‘em. That’ll teach them to think they’re smarter than everyone else. Who’s a rocket scientist now?!
Flip flop fuck faces
They probably agreed to cooperate with Trump’s immigration crackdown. Wait no, that’s our crooked mayor.
Not the EPA, not the Dept. of Education, but NASA, the place they’ve been cutting the funding for 40 years. It really is the Nerd Reich.
Nah these aren’t nerds, they don’t make or do anything aside from spending insane amounts of money to make even more insane amounts of money.
Meanwhile at the space station… Stranded astronauts desperately build a parachute using their clothes, duct tape (the good stuff, not that home depot crap) and USB cables. They must make the hard decision to decide who should jump and who should remain in space… Forever!
If you jump off of the space station you would just keep circling the Earth. Even if you had a parachute.
You’d deorbit eventually, but the parachute probably wouldn’t help you at that point.
Is it worse to go sideways into the atmosphere or straight down?
(Assuming you had the however many years of oxygen with you to make the journey, etc.)
I assume it would be better to just stay on the station and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises and I bet you get random eclipses too
Just asking because… if I have the oxygen maybe I could use it to lower my velocity of orbit or whatever speed that high is called until I fall straight down.
I don’t know how velocity works if I was going sideways at 17,000 mph and I sprayed the oxygen in front of me I would probably start to fall faster immediately that’s weird gravity and shit, I don’t know the correlation between gravity and speed
10 mph per second … per second? It accelerates so maybe close enough
as long as you could slow down to terminal velocity ( slow enough to prevent exploding when you hit atmosphere) you’d be fine.
“D’oH!”
Asteroid is like “ok I’ll go back down to 2.3%, but don’t try that again”
For a while It looked like “giant meteor” was going to have a chance.
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