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I mean, it would explain a thing or two.
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Are you sure they’re not talking about me?
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“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea…
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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My theory is that we stink, and everybody knows it but us. Prove me wrong!
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And why not? A former reality TV star is currently successfully playing one of the most interesting US presidents ever.
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Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed
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“NASA is directed to do probably the two most difficult and ambitious projects that one can do in human spaceflight, which is to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars,” according to Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for non-profit advocacy group The Planetary Society. “So they’re saying, do these two insanely difficult things with a workforce that’s the equivalent to that before the first humans even went into space,” he told The Register.
Dreier pointed out that the proposals as they stand would leave NASA with a fiscal budget at 1961 levels and staffing numbers the same as 1960 - an era before the agency orbited its first astronaut under Project Mercury and before the Project Gemini two-man missions even took off.
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Please don’t cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
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The problem, according to private space industry representatives, is a line in a budget request document that mentions (page 300) plans to reduce funding for the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) in the next budget year, slashing its budget from $65 million to just $10 million. That $55M cut is accomplished by eliminating the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) program, and that doesn’t leave the space industry feeling very confident in the state of orbital affairs.
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Have they seen how the government’s been treating actual air traffic control though? 
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I don’t understand it. Is it because screwing over air traffic controllers worked for Reagan and Reagan was the most loved president ever(1) before the current most beloved leader(2)? So conservatives have air traffic controllers and firefighters in their sights rather than the universally beloved “papers please” border cops(3)?
1 not actually true
2 You know it.
3 you’ll never guess
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But surely, Putin is so stable and genius that this would never happen, right?
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Is it just me, or is Gizmodo going off the rails lately… clicking through, this doesn’t seem so absurd (microbial life in the clouds), but they’ve been posting lots of pro-AI bullshit lately…
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