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When the real fight comes, the Nazis will have morons running the show, while the Resistance will have the smartest, most experienced people in the world.

Happened before. Jews were round up and killed or fled Germany, and their "Jewish sciences" like the work of Einstein were taboo ot outright rejected. So when it became apparent that nuclear energy could be harnessed to make a bomb, the Germans were on the back foot and had no one with expertise in the theory necessary to build it. Germany fell before the bomb was ultimately built, but it would have turned the tides of the war immediately had they not, as we saw.

The problem now, though, is that most of the world powers already have enough doomsday weapons to destroy all of humanity 10 times over so... even as we get more precise and efficient and effective at taking out specific targets from afar, all it ever takes is for one mad man with a legion of nukes to end it all, and guess what we have...

But but... If every NASA employee is fired, we'll have 0.00001% of the money we need to buy Greenland.

It's way, way worse than. When you spend money at NASA you aren't just setting it on fire, those salaries support everything that the people who work there spend money on in their personal lives. It pays local taxes. It supports the salaries of workers in the local communities (I don't mean where NASA buildings are either, that money goes to all 50 states). It also mostly gets spent issuing contracts to the fabricators that make the things for NASA. It pays salaries at Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing etc. There are also all the drivers pushing the advancement of industry and education and their knock-on effects that come from leading the world in aerospace science and engineering.

And the real kick in the pants: all of those things together GENERATE TAX REVENUE. Even if, for some insanely immoral and degenerate reason, you wanted to ignore the ways that NASA makes the world a better place--when viewed through a purely fiscal lens the money spent at NASA generates more in tax revenue downstream than it costs to run NASA. When you cut their budget like this you aren't reducing the debt/deficit, you're increasing it.

I still feel like that’s an overestimation. I have worked there in the past, and the best and brightest often are because they’re passionate people. They tend to get undervalued and taken advantage of because of that passion.

MAGA Nazis can't do math. The truth is what they declare it to be.

Being pedantic about a good point, but I'm pretty sure you have an extra zero in that percentage. 0.016% of 3 trillion is 480 million, 0.0016% is 48 million

There is no place for critical thinkers and problem solvers in new America.

Shit is tense here, dude…

The most painful part is even if the budget is increased, we won't be able to get this talent back for decades

It's very specialized skills that can only built up after decades at NASA. Once it's gone, it's gone for good

Spaaaaceeeee foooorreccceeeeee!

Yeah, i hate it.

Do let us know how funny you find it in 3 years when they blame minorities and Democrats for it in the voting booth.

SpaceX had help from NASA. NASA still funds them too. Do not think for one second that SpaceX accomplished that on their own. Americans paid for them more than even Musk realizes. When SpaceX needed help, they got it from NASA.

Here's the thing... if America really cared about NASA... I mean REALLY CARED... we would have been up in arms when they abdicated the shuttle program 14 years ago. That was, what, under Obama's first term? 2011.

I was super interested in the shuttle stuff when I was a kid, from Enterprise forward, and was pretty disappointed with what they were doing with it.

"Oh, look, they're sending up mice again... shouldn't we be PAST that by now? We landed on the fricking MOON already, why are we sending up mice... AGAIN?"

Best I can do is a dictatorship.