White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

[Jacson6]

https://futurism.com/white-house-orders-nasa-destroy-important-satellite

The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

We can only speculate as to why the Trump administration wants to end the missions. But considering president Donald Trump's staunch climate change denial and his administration's efforts to deal the agency's science directorate a potentially existential blow, it's not difficult to speculate.

[newdeal2]

1. I'm sure it's in project 2025

As a favor to some private company. He’s not smart enough to think of all this cruel stuff himself.

[malaise]

4. More like

Private satellite goons to replace NASA

Absolute madness

[Harker]

15. "Beautiful clean coal" has surely paid him off, as have innumerable others.

He's not smart enough to think up much of anything beyond the personal revenge, and he needs help with that.

He's just a hideous hood ornament on a big, ugly car.

[malaise]

17. He's just a hideous hood ornament on a big, ugly car

Perfect.

[Harker]

19. And it makes distracting, annoying noises as it moves through the air.

Somewhat like one of those deer warning whistles, but unfortunately we humans can hear it.

[BattleRow]

28. That gets five miles a gallon ..

[allegorical oracle]

32. Not to mention the smell.... nt

[BattleRow]

34. (Methane) gaseous emissions...

[JBTaurus83]

2. These people

will destroy society. It will take years to rebuild what has already been destroyed, and each time they return to office (if they ever leave), they will just destroy everything all over again.

[groundloop]

13. Not merely years, but decades to rebuild what's been destroyed.

And now that right wingers have seen how easy it was to destroy our nice pretty government it will never be anywhere near the same again.

The motherfuckers wanted an oligarchy where the ultra wealthy could do as they please and pay nothing to help run the government and tRump gave them exactly that.

AND, as has always happened in the past - GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers, GOPers break things, voters elect Democrats to fix what GOPers broke, it's impossible to fix everything in 4 short years so voters hand the government back to GOPers........

[gfarber]

25. good nic

Excellent

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. THE DIRTY BASTARDS! HOW DARE THEY MESS WITH REAL SCIENCE? DAMN THEM ALL.

[underpants]

5. It's always a good idea to have some advance warning

[eShirl]

6. fucking vandals

leave our shit alone

[Greg_In_SF]

7. Launched one after the other

between 1999 and 2004, NASA researchers have always known they had built-in expiration dates. Most instruments don’t work properly forever, and the satellites themselves are running out of fuel, meaning they’re gradually drifting out of their intended orbits.

[C_U_L8R]

8. See no data. Hear no data.

MAGA ignorance may be bliss for them but it’s killing the rest of the planet.

[Wednesdays]

11. It's like COVID would go away

if we only stopped testing for it.

[hadEnuf]

16. That's exactly how Trump likes to do it.

Just like no testing, no covid.

[bif]

9. Republicans: Building a bridge to the 18th Century!

[orangecrush]

10. Not theirs to destroy

[Harker]

18. Not much is.

[MLWR]

12. I guess that's one way to avoid "bad" numbers and having to complain

that the numbers are "rigged." He really lives up to his name Trumpelthinskin.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

14. Maybe they can be stopped.

Wouldn't deliberately destroying government property be a crime?

I know, it's wishful thinking on my part.

[PurgedVoter]

20. When this passes, remember that the oil company owners need to pay for a complete replacement

They bought the destruction, even if it make them homeless, they need to pay for what they have destroyed.

[rubbersole]

21. Wasn't it Saint Ronnie that said trees were polluting the atmosphere with CO2?

And ketchup was a vegetable. tsf is a babbling vegetable groveling to the oil industry.

[love_katz]

26. He's paying off his oil industry honors.

$hitler asked them for a billion dollars in campaign donations. I seem to remember that they gave him about 10 million dollars?
Either way, all of his destruction of NOAA, and the EPA, and his removal of as many environmental regulations as he can get away with, is just quid pro quo for his fat cat donors.
I hate these greedy rat ba$tards with every particle of my being!

[CaptainTruth]

22. He wants to kill us all.

[twodogsbarking]

24. Except for Hot Lips.

[Texin]

23. Nothing like the good old Dark Ages or the time of the Inquisition.

Get rid of the data and the scientists (the infidels and sorcerers) who blaspheme God and all will be protected.

[surfered]

27. Don't look up!

[Mr. Sparkle]

29. The only reason i can come up with is that the oil companies told them to do it.

Namely the oil lobbyists

[Greg_In_SF]

30. That and the fact

that they are over 20 years old and running out of fuel causing them to drift out of orbit?

[Mr. Sparkle]

31. One of them is attached to the International Space Station.

Im sure it would not be very hard to keep it working, if they wanted to.

And Nasa usually extends the life of their satellites, unless they have better options.

[Greg_In_SF]

33. Yes, it is

now. They had to grab it with one of the robotic arms.