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chrisweekly · 1 days ago
Everyone able to make it to the Boston Museum of Science should make a point of watching "Deep Sky" in IMAX (the story of the JWST and tons of new-to-mankind images of the furthest reaches / oldest objects in the universe), it's breathtaking.

https://www.mos.org/visit/omni/deep-sky

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Jun8 · 1 days ago
You can find NASA's 2025 Budget Request Summary here (PDF link: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fy-2025-budg...). It's a visually great deck that provides a lot info.

From Slide 26: "$317M supports the operation of Great Observatories including the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble, and Chandra".

Can't some of the money that's been saved from other cutting channeled to NASA?

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sega_sai · 23 hours ago
Obviously it's pointless to try to make any reasoned arguments. These people don't care, they just want to destroy for the sake of it. In the past I wondered how great civilizations collapse and how this could happen. It is just becoming clearer and clearer every day.

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renegade-otter · 22 hours ago
A hedge fund manager, somewhere out there, does not have enough tax cuts to pay for the 5th infinity pool and a lambo. Science can go suck it!

Queue "In the eyes on an angel" by Sarah McLachlan.

d3rockk · 23 hours ago
This is basically "Don't Look Up" in real life.