Posted on 01/07/2019 3:12:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
The world’s largest airborne observatory was supposed to be parked in Seattle this week, so thousands of scientists attending the “Super Bowl of Astronomy” could behold this marvel: a Boeing 747 outfitted with a massive telescope used to study the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
But conference-goers will not be able to see NASA’s space-exploring plane. Its visit to the 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society was canceled, one of a growing list of scientific casualties of the partial government shutdown now stretching into its third week.
Along with the plane, hundreds of government scientists are also no longer allowed to attend the conference or two other major scientific gatherings scheduled to begin this week. Those meetings will address pressing issues in the fields of technology, space exploration, extreme weather and climate change.
But the shutdown’s impact on science stretches well beyond the empty chairs at this week’s conferences, said Keith Seitter, executive director of the American Meteorological Society. It means some of the nation’s smartest scientific minds are sitting at home, not doing science, for weeks, with no clear end in sight. …
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I’ve never liked feral scientists.
Too bad, so sad. Some of my taxpayer dollars saved.
>>the “Super Bowl of Astronomy” could behold this marvel: a Boeing 747 outfitted with a massive telescope used to study the fundamental mysteries of the universe.
Non-essential government spending.
Build - the - wall
The thing that I most enjoy at these things are the novel carpet designs in the conference venues. It is a challenge to pick patterns and colors so that you cannot tell that one of those rubber chicken dinners got spilled on the floor.
Good. No money wasted on useless conferences catering to egos.
Not to mention the economic impact to the local hooker population.
Trump should brag about how he is personally solving global warming.
OMG...what are we going to do with “some of the nation’s smartest scientific minds are sitting at home, not doing science,”
Maybe they can “do some science” while washing the dishes, grooming the dog, or emptying the fireplace ashes.
Magnus Pyke did way more for science than these “hundreds” of hacks.
Each day my local news station posts the dates of the record high and record low for that date.
For January 7:
Record high: 76 degrees, 1907
Record low: 5 degrees, 1884
Today the low was 32.7 degrees and the projected high is 43 degrees.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
That phrase, “federal scientists” . . .
—
“I’ll take ‘oxymorons’ for $200, Alex.”
(snif)
Venkman is the only true scientist in that group.
Good. Progress.
Unless they were paying for this out of their own pockets I say good. In this day and age with video conferencing it is no longer necessary to travel all over to exchange information.
Okay, who’s got the world’s tiniest violin?
You beat me to it.
On the down side hundreds of “Scientists are probably at home making new “scientists” during the shutdown if someone will give them instructions on how to do IT.
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