[HN Gopher] America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life
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       America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life
        
       Author : voxleone
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-04 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | xqcgrek2 wrote:
       | The new NASA budget cutting science is a travesty
        
       | dyauspitr wrote:
       | Renewable energy, EVs, pharmaceutical research, scientific R&D
       | are effectively being killed. We're speedrunning how to crash the
       | country.
        
       | d00mB0t wrote:
       | Let's be honest, NASA's not what it what it used to be--it's in
       | state of organizational stagnation and resistant to change. It
       | reminds me of what's happening with Intel right now, that's why
       | SpaceX and Blue Origin are advancing.
        
         | xqcgrek2 wrote:
         | Neither SpaceX or Blue Origin do science. And the budget
         | Congress just passed actually doubles down on SLS/Artemis
         | rather than SpaceX or Blue Origin.
         | 
         | All while the great things NASA does, like science and
         | astrophysics, being cut.
        
       | blibble wrote:
       | look in the oval office
        
       | ghushn3 wrote:
       | America is also killing a lot of people. Whether it's through
       | deportations to inhumane prisons, cutting medical and food
       | support, incarceration, or support for nations engaged in murder
       | of civilians.
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       | to say nothing of the cuts to environmental sciences and
       | protections.
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       | I guess I find it pretty difficult to care about the search for
       | alien life when a federal domestic police force just got more
       | funding that nearly every single world military. Heck, more
       | funding than branches of our own military. To chase down
       | something that's not even a misdemeanor.
        
       | ungreased0675 wrote:
       | I don't care about finding alien life. Travel to other planets,
       | expeditions to asteroids, supersonic intercontinental travel,
       | those are a few of the things I'd rather have NASA work on.
        
         | verzali wrote:
         | Sorry to tell you, but it isn't going to work on those things
         | either. It appears to be spending all its cash on a pale
         | imitation of Apollo 11.
        
       | jtwoodhouse wrote:
       | If America was meant to find alien life, our Founding Fathers
       | would have put it in the Constitution.
        
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