People are tweeting #ThanksNASA after a Trump adviser suggested he'd axe its earth science research

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Source: Business Insider

People are tweeting #ThanksNASA after a Trump adviser suggested he'd axe its earth science research arm

Rafi Letzter
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Scientists have taken to Twitter to talk about all the important work NASA's earth science program does, using the hashtag #ThanksNASA.

Michael Busch @michael_w_busch
Weather forecasts, disaster planning, emergency response, agriculture, water supply & climate change monitoring.#thanksNASA @NASAEarth https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/801774951166513152 …
6:05 PM - 24 Nov 2016
46 46 Retweets 27 27 likes

Elisabeth Kosters @EC_Kosters
40 yrs ago I was first exposed to - digital! - #Landsat data; it helped us estimate suspended #sediment in estuaries - amazing! #ThanksNASA
3:12 PM - 24 Nov 2016
14 14 Retweets 12 12 likes

The researchers who started and spread the hashtag have not called out any political figures or made any explicit political statements around it. But context is important.

On Wednesday, Bob Walker, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, told The Guardian that the new presidential administration would cut earth science research at NASA. He suggested that the agency would lose the more than 40% of its funding dedicated to understanding our own planet, and be instructed to instead turn its attention toward exploration and deep space research.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-tweeting-thanksnasa-trump-nasa-science-2016-11

[pansypoo53219]

1. RUMP is the LA LA LA LA i can't HEAR you party. ignorance is bliss.

stay ignorant.

[Initech]

2. I prefer to call them the "go fuck yourself party".

Because that seems to be their battle cry judging from Trump's cabinet picks.