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This really makes me angry and sad. Poor little guy. I will miss my tweets from the surface of Mars. Fuck the GOP!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-put-to-sleep-during-gov-t-shutdown
NASA's Curiosity rover will be put into a "protective" sleep and "no new data gathering will take place" for as long as the U.S. government shutdown lasts, NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel told the International Business Times on Monday.
The news comes less than a week after the Curiosity rover discovered that the surface soil on Mars contains 2 percent water by weight, or roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot.
The Hubble Space Telescope will also be affected by the shutdown: the instrument will continue to take pictures in space, but there will be no one in to analyze the images until the shutdown ends and staff are allowed to return to work, the Independent reported.
Only 549 of NASA's 18,250 employees are at work today, according to CBS News.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
johnd83
(593 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)Of course who cares about science, we can do without it.
brooklynite
(94,581 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)I guess we'll have to wait for the private sector to do it
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)We can reach distant planets and yet are ruled by men who believe Bronze Age myths.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
What a sad fucking state of affairs.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)They already mistrust science. Why, some of those loony scientists even claim the Earth is more than 6000 years old!