/sci/ - Science & Math

>destroys every one of your cells with no chance of reconstruction
>HEY ITS BETTER THAN NOTHING!

I can understand the people about to die doing it, but I'm holding out for something realistic.

Today the legislatures of Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and possibly Michigan are sending electoral votes for Trump, overriding the ones sent by their governors. Second Trump term inbound. We may yet get those commercial space nukes.

>>12444802
That was a hell of a day.

>>12444799
I can confirm that even the ones that get hired as SDEs at west coast FAGMAN companies are total pinheads.

>>12243746
>Trump is the only president with a public ego big enough to get genuine satisfaction out of space flight
He also likes building things, accomplishing things, setting records, and winning. Building giant space rockets and doing unprecedented things with them totally counts.

I want Starship to loft massive killsats into orbit for DoD so we can point them at China and our other enemies.

>>12102940
Donald Trump knows how to hire people.

>>12032384
>A vote for trump is a vote against science.

>>11916030
After eight years of NASA going nowhere while the bureaucrats twiddling their thumbs trying to figure out what the fuck the 'path' for the 'Flexible Path' plan was supposed to actually be, I was convinced NASA was going to be stuck in the doldrums until the 2030s. Instead, Trump came in and immediately laid out three straightforward goals:
1) Accelerate commercial crew to restore American manned launch capability as soon as possible
2) Re-prioritize the manned lunar exploration program with the goal of boots on the Moon by 2024
3) Create a new military branch with the goal of defending American satellites and space infrastructure

And it didn't just end up being footnotes in a government report or a blurb on a re-election website - this shit's actually getting done now: CCDev and CCP made more progress in the last three years than in the previous six, SpaceX launched in May, Boeing's launching early next year, Artemis 1 is slated for launch in under 16 months, NASA's inflation-adjusted budget is the highest it's been since 1997, and the new Space Force is coming together.

Bitch all you want about the man's personality and social media habits, but Trump's presidency has been a nothing but positive for NASA, American spaceflight, and American R&D in general.

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