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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Every day I thank god I left that shithole of a site

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This also is fair. I wonder if any of the scumbags who hurt that poor woman were charged with anything.

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

I think the petition's goal is to ensure NH flies off to explore other Kuiper Belt objects instead of being sent to the ass end of nowhere like NASA apparently wants to do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather Congress just give them more.

I wish the space nerds around the country were more politically active. Nonviolent pro-NASA protests in front of the Capitol when they're deciding on the budget every year would accomplish a lot more for space than just bitching on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doubtful. NASA's yearly budget is like $20-30 billion on average and mothballing New Horizons will only save them a pithy few million.

Which makes me think the money explanation is bogus. I wonder if something else is going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

🤔 It'd be a pretty interesting punishment for particularly heinous crimes, though. So there's that

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yes it absolutely does

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

NASA wants to shit-can it because of money issues. They want to turn it into a heliosphere probe, which NASA doesn't need; it just gives them an excuse to mothball it.

A shit ton of planetary scientists have been complaining and word got out, upsetting us space nerds everywhere. NASA doesn't want to send another probe out to the Kuiper Belt for another 20-30 years, as in we millennials will be old or dead by the time we get new Pluto pics if they get their way.

Universe Today article on the problem

Phys.org article

The petition was actually on Isaac Arthur's channel and is almost at 5000 signatures, please sign

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

People who say that are just trying to be a dick to you. Say something soul-searing to them in response and they'll stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The possibility is as horrifying philosophically as it is literally

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