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White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow, the government agency with literally the best long term ROI by an order of magnitude is getting its budget cut. Cool cool cool.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Well the IRS is about the same at $7 revenue per $1 spent, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That should help to put a flag on Mars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Woah! We just found a FREE half of Nasa's Budget not being used! We should GIVE IT to President Elon Musk!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

i love how they are basically handing soft power and future dominance over to china.