astronomy

SanctimoniousApe, 15 godzin temu w Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

There oughtta be a sci-fi short story competition using this for a basis - what happens when aliens eventually come across this bizarre piece of junk in space?

anindefinitearticle, 5 godzin temu w JWST facing potential cuts to its operational budget

telescope is late to make sure it is good

inflation happens during delay

original budget estimates for operations are now too low due to inflation

the entire budget is 1/4000 the military budget, but instead of shoring up this rounding error to make sure that one of our country’s most impressive engineering feats stays usable, we could always just throw it out to bomb more brown kids.

Sane and rational country.

homesweethomeMrL, 2 godziny temu w JWST facing potential cuts to its operational budget

Well now that the idiots of all stripes have put us in this exciting new world, let’s see what the optoins are:

• Change nothing, and get cut
• Put advertising in space and get cut
• Ask oligarchs for money to make AI use JWST real good (but don’t of course)

Or the most obvious and pathetically realistic option: rename it for trump and watch it’s funding remain the same or even get a little tiny bump.