- I am directing most employees to work from home tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7, so everyone can be in a safe, comfortable environment on a stressful day. Most individuals will not be able to enter the Lab during this mandatory remote work day. A Lab access list has been created and those who will have access will be notified by email shortly. If you do not receive an email instructing you to be on Lab, please plan to work remotely, regardless of your telework agreement status. In addition, and to ensure we have everyone’s accurate contact information, I am also asking everyone to please review and update your personal email and phone number in Workday today.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company or organization that had mandatory remote work day outside of really crazy weather during the peak of Covid. Perhaps it’s to protect the equipment from distraught or disgruntled employees?
This is good actually, US sabotaging its most effective space exploration asset means more time for the others and less probablity of US exerting any real power into space.
NASA is an inseparable part of the US MIC and put a literal fucking SS officer in charge of its flagship program. Absolutely wild to see “leftists” supporting it because NASA gives us fun facts about Saturn’s rings between enabling the GPS system the guides Israeli bombs into Palestinian hospitals.
If there is just one thing humanity should pay attention from the century of futurist thought it is that capitalism should be never allowed into space.
Is it that, or that KKKrakas should never be allowed to “explore” anything ever again?
That too, every nation involved in the western “great geographic discoveries” should be banned from having anything that can cross Karman Line.
I think it means more privatization. They will just throw mare money at SpaceX and Lockheed or something
Yes, but NASA is way less likely to waste those money.
You’re kind of right, it will (hopefully) force JPL to get its shit together when it comes to project management but more importantly, JPL doesn’t make rockets.
Sorry to burst your bubble but unless something major happens, the US is going to be the only one capable of projecting any power into space. China is good at playing catch-up but even their plans talk about a having a domestic fully reusable superheavy lift rocket in the 2040’s, which could obviously be accelerated somewhat if circumstances demand but we’re not talking about a Moon race type situation here. SpaceX/NASA are the only players here right now.
US literally forgot how to make rockets when their looted nazis died off and spend 10 years having to beg Russia for a lift. China is steadily keeping its announced terms for everything and basically caught up to NASA in 15 years of what NASA spent 70 to do. In the meantime US is defunding their one somewhat working agency and are throwing insane amount of cash to the Musk grift, which might amount to something due to sheer amount of money but is not nearly as effective an any other space agency and is inherently unstable like all other Musk grifts.
Seeing things like OP and believing USA over China is just utter stupidity.
Kinda funny how that works when you do something cool and then just let the brain drain rot it all away. Even the Rovers - Marc Roper is subjected to YouTube vids and science box subscriptions. Had engineering geniuses on tap and instead of training the next gen to refine practices and keep momentum they shed the talent and destroy the records so every subsequent generation has to reinvent the wheel.