About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday.

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[–] 123 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Depart is such a passive way to say they're fired

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is what we need! Less science, more militarized law enforcement!

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It OK, you can call them aliens.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In space the aliens are legal

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I say we carry on as usual and deport them anyway

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Had a job interview at their Ames facility back in December. It was an interesting opportunity, and it required a LOT of sacrifices in terms of commute and workload, but I could've made it work. Then they tried to pull the "Could we interest you in a contractor position?" switcheroo at the end of the hiring process and I noped the fuck out. The next week, Trump announced he was cutting all contractor jobs and freezing new hires for the agency.

    Lmfaoooo

    Guess the burnout is real. I couldn't believe how much of a dump the place was honestly. Shit is being held together with duct tape, zip ties, and free veteran labor.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I couldn't believe how much of a dump the place was honestly. Shit is being held together with duct tape, zip ties, and free veteran labor.

    And the DOGE boys will see that and use it as evidence they deserve even less, ratger than seeing that's what things have been reduced to due to budget cuts.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    NASA is such a gift to the world.

    Let's hope it can survive this administration.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There will be more people resigning and taking the same jobs elsewhere in the world where this mission still means something, and they'll be welcome with open arms.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah...they didnt really give them much choice. Either retire, take the forced resignation, or stay and hope they dont RIF you. Its not rocket science whats going on here. They're trying to force everyone into the private sector.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    MAGA is fine with this. What are we wasting this money for?!

    DeGrasse Tyson gave a talk years ago about how if America won't invest in science, we don't get to name achievements that go down in history. We're gladly handing over to China.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One of the only good things I said that Trump did in his first term was invest in space. Gave NASA more budget, created Space Force, as ridiculous as it is at this stage in our history... looks like he just took away the one good thing I credited him for.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Space Force is perfectly logical. Combine all our miltary's space activity, intelligence, satellites, all of it, into one dedicated branch. No clue how that's working out IRL.

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  • ...................this is a 2 paragraph article.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    And those leaving will heavily represent the ones who can most easily get a comparable or better job elsewhere, the most uniquely talented. Way to hinder the space program.

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  • DLR is hiring

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Trump, you can't have your space gate faster that way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Image of Doge deciding who stays at NASA:

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Are you tired of winning yet?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Should have instead cut funding to the SLS…

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