Posted on 05/09/2025 1:18:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I thought we already won “the race to the moon” decades ago?
Is this an admission that we never actually went there?
End sarcasm alert for the low-IQ crowd.
Trump is afraid that a trip to them moon, with modern cameras looking back at Earth, will prove the Earth is flat and we’ve been lied to all our lives. /sarc
Artemis has been pushing deadlines back a year every year for almost a decade.
They are NASA’s version of California’s high speed rail—a useless boondoggle.
Zero out the project and move on....
Civilian contractors can do it at least 50% cheaper.
The compbureaucracylaint is Trump is shifting resources from government bureaucracies to more efficient private organizations that emphasize performance over DEI, etc.
No. According to conspiracy theories it was faked.
Anyone who thinks the Earth is flat is a complete retard.
Every mission imagined is crippled by the "need" for triple redundancy and associated cost.
How come the world has to be flat. Maybe it is conical?
If it was faked, the USSR would have humiliated the U.S. They may not have been able to get to the moon, but they had the technology to know if we did.
Sure it does.
So, Lynyrd Skynyrd never actually existed?
Two comments:
In an era of 37 trillion deficits, we can’t afford to spend money on this kind of stuff, which is discretionary.
Second, Musk is going to realize that his dream of sending a manned mission to Mars is going to be much easier to achieve if the launch is from the moon. So, he may take care of this for us.
nope, Nasa needs to be shut down completely and a new agency with proper leadership needs to be built from the ground up.
With the rapid improvement of robotics and AI the issue may become academic in just a few years.
Humans may no longer have to risk their lives to accomplish any space mission.
“The Trump administration has effectively flushed $47.5 billion down the toilet, according to Time.”
Not if you adhere to Principles of Finance and Project Accounting Rule #1: Sunk costs are irrelevant to the current decision.
Agreed—NASA is a horse and buggy at this point.
Time to put the horse down and send the buggy to the dump.
Washington Monument ploy.
If a budget is cut, the first thing shut down is the Washington monument.
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