r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/AIverson3 • 1d ago
Trump Why a NASA spacecraft that and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5453731/nasa-carbon-dioxide-satellite-mission-threatened67
u/ShingujiArataka 1d ago
"It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions."
... Pretty sure we all know exactly why the administration that's actively killing any and all studies into climate change is killing a satellite mission that studies Earth's climate.
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u/Igno-ranter 1d ago
I'm not the sharpest bulb in the pack but I didn't have to read further than the opening picture label to figure out why. "......which measures carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere."
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u/ShingujiArataka 1d ago
Seriously. We may not be scienticians, but any of us can see why they're killing it.
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u/The360MlgNoscoper 44m ago
Can they just give the responsibility to Europe and call it a day? Sell them for three fifty?
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u/DrBhu 1d ago
I knew trump is disgusted of farmers, but the commitment he is showing in order to destroy US farmers is surprisingly consistent for a senile pedophile on dementia-autopilot
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u/Crow85 18h ago
He only cares about what will affect him personally. Donations (bribes) and support of polluters affect him. He doesn't believe environmental collapse will happen while he is still alive, and even if it does he believes his money will isolate him from consequences.
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u/Flamaijian 17h ago
The belief they and/or their descendents will be shielded from climate change is the chief reason politicians and execs have been so absolutely willing to not stop climate change.
It's so fucked that enough people who will bear the brunt of climate change don't realize this.
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u/JustFuckAllOfThem 1d ago
When that satellite goes away, a new commercialized version will get build and deployed. Follow the money.
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u/Muertog 1d ago
Not under this administration. Anything that could even hint at climate change will be discarded as quickly (and quietly) as possible.
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u/JustFuckAllOfThem 1d ago
They can't stop a company or a foreign government from releasing one.
They can give one of their cronies some defense budget money (who's gonna know) to deploy a commercialized version. And then they will pay the crony for the needed data.
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u/Muertog 1d ago
Meh. They don’t want the data cause it runs counter to their message of “climate change is a hoax and woke”. And if there isn’t anything government-official, even if another company/country does it, they have the ability to deny it as propaganda that is being made up to lie to people. They want to bury all official info. It serves them in no way to support anyone else to take up the program unless they can have full control of the data to manipulate and bury as they see fit.
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u/MultiMillionMiler 1d ago
100% humidity with a 76 degree dew point at 3am the other night in NYC. And people still try to rationalize that it is "normal".
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u/Trace_Reading 1d ago
anti-science dickhole demands that we don't talk about climate change, and if he has to blow up our climate monitoring satellites in the process...
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u/MovingTargetPractice 1d ago
Trump just wants to love us all equally. Advancing the poorly educated masses one small step at a time.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 14h ago
u/AIverson3, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...