The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.
According to documents obtained by Politico, most employees leaving are in senior-level government ranks, depriving the agency of decades of experience as part of a push to slash the size of the federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations.
The documents indicate that 1,818 of the staff currently serve in core mission areas, like science or human space flight, while the others work in mission support roles including information technology, or IT.
Let’s say it’s $250,000 on average for these employees base pay + benefits. That’s about half a billion in savings.
Which is
0.0016%0.016% of the $3Trillion dollars in debt the MAGAs just approved. So this basically saves us nothing and only hurts our ability to invest in technological innovation.What a bunch of dumb fucks.
But but… If every NASA employee is fired, we’ll have 0.00001% of the money we need to buy Greenland.
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
MAGA Nazis can’t do math. The truth is what they declare it to be.
As bad as it is, I cannot help but laugh at Alabama and Texas for this self inflicted wound.
This idiotic administration still hasn’t figured out that every time they fire someone experienced and competent, and replaced them with a loyalist, they just make their opposition stronger.
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.
But since they believe to their core their worn out propaganda that EVERYONE in the government is an incompetent parasite, they think they are strengthening their side by cutting these people. Pure hubris.
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…
Gotta free up more money for the billionaire grifters.
I grew up in Huntsville, AL. NASA is not just used for space.
Remember the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? NASA was brought in to help with that. I know people personally who worked on it.
This is just another step to making no one questions the administration.
Don’t worry everyone. I don’t like musk any more than you do but you can’t deny that space x is amazing and perfect and sexy and not Jewish and will solve all problems because nobody else in human history ever thought of a reusable vessel!
And this is definitely a “good” reminder to reach out to a buddy at NASA
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.
I’m sure the ESA will gladly accept new rocket scientists.
So, america… Ready to do anything yet?
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?”
Dude. The Space Shuttle program was initially meant to run for 10 years and 100 missions. It ultimately ran for 30 years and 135 missions,far surpassing every design goal. The tragedy is not that it was shut down, but that there was nothing to replace it when we did.
We literally successfully completed the first flight test for Ares I. We absolutely had a replacement. They canceled it as soon as we built it and started the SLS program. We successfully launched SLS with an almost perfect mission around the moon. Now, just guess what the gov is doing. …cancelling SLS. It might go a few more flights, but Trump canceled the program already. It’s not that we don’t build and successfully fly. It’s that they pull the rug out from under our feet as soon as we’re successful.
Yup. It just felt like we peaked with the Moon missions and have been steadily moving backwards ever since.
Same. I’m not even American and I was inspired by the goings on over the pond. Now, not so much.
India wins.
Just when you thought these morons can’t get any worse, they do it. Every time.
I wonder if Mark Robert sees this and wishes he had done it different during the Tesla video controversy.
And the brain drain continues.
