The Trump administration’s planned cuts would end 53 planned or ongoing NASA Science missions

The Artemis II mission and its successful return to Earth have, for now, brought the American public’s attention back to NASA and its aspirational mission to push the boundaries of humanity into space.

Achieving those goals costs billions, but the Office of Management and Budget under Donald Trump’s administration is planning deep cuts to NASA’s budget.

Famed science communicator and teacher Bill Nye has described Trump’s planned cuts as “surprising, illogical, and very troubling” in a new op-ed for MS NOW.

“These cuts would be an insult to our astronauts and entire NASA workforce. Astronauts and their colleagues are civil servants who work hard, accomplish nearly impossible things and represent our country to the world,” he wrote.

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    NASA literally invented single crystal solar cells. If we didn’t have that, we’d have even less hope of beating the climate crisis.

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          I could show you a video clip of Netanyahu during the last 30some years claiming Iran is weeks away from nuclear bomb

          I can also show you a video of politicians from the last 30 or so years claiming the climate is a disaster and ice caps will melt and ocean levels will flood Florida and so on

          Both are bullshit

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            So all of those stronger hurricanes in the US in the Golf of Mexico, stronger winter storms in the Midwest and northeast, droughts in the west, actual data showing ice shelves receding, higher average temperatures in Europe, record breaking temperatures in the Middle East and India…

            All of that is bullshit, huh?

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                The data recorded in the last 10-20 years show large rises, too. Even if I agreed with your assessment of “old data can’t be trusted because we had worse measurement capabilities then”, there is evidence right now showing short term, meteoric rises, too. And all of that data points to human driven climate change.

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                Oh yep nobody new how to write anything above 40 in the old days. Your an idiot.

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                  In the old days they probably recorded the temperature as to what it felt like outside.

                  “Well Joan, it feels like it’s 85 degrees out today… write that down”

                  And then that was the recorded temp that day

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            Travel to the north like way north Cambridge bay or somewhere up in the tundra of Nunavit or NWTo the people there and tell me climate change is bullshit. There buildings built on “perma” frost are sinking grass is growing where there has never been grass. But yep it is all fake.