Slashdot Mirror


US Astronomy Facing Severe Budget Cuts and Facility Closures

Nancy_A writes "The U.S. astronomy budget is facing unprecedented cuts, including the potential closure of several facilities. A new report by the National Science Foundation's Division of Astronomical Sciences says available funding for ground-based astronomy could undershoot projected budgets by as much as 50%. The report recommends the closure – called 'divestment' in the new document — of iconic facilities such as the Very Long Baseline Array and the Green Bank Radio Telescope, as well as shutting down four different telescopes at the Kitt Peak Observatory by 2017."

2 of 157 comments (clear)

  1. Mass non-white immigration... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... thanks to the Jewish parasites who feed off you suckers...

    Your country is being turned into Brazil, and all so that the Jews can continue to print money from nothing (Federal Reserve, and fractional reserve banking) and ensure that the population is so STUPID they will never question what is happening. Can't have a country full of white people - they might separate from the international banking system, and then the poor Jews won't be able to force their 'cattle' (that's you and me) to work for them as their slaves...

    http://archive.org/stream/HowHitlerDefiedTheInternationalBankers/HowHitlerDefiedTheBankers_djvu.txt

    "Canadian researcher Dr. Henry Makow (who is Jewish himself) says the main reason
    why the bankers arranged for a world war against Germany was that Hitler sidestepped
    the bankers by creating his own money, thereby freeing the German people. Worse, this
    freedom and prosperity threatened to spread to other nations. Hitler had to be stopped! "

  2. Re:Can't have it all by roman_mir · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh yeah? The free market capitalism actually allowed the people to cut down on the amount of time they had to spend working, that's what allowed the people to work 5 days a week and 8 hours a day, you can look up Henry Ford as an example of how that was done, while people were paid more and more because of how productive they became.

    The gov't stepped in with all the money printing and all the SS and Medicare schemes, and instead of getting the benefit of the higher productivity and working fewer hours and a shorter week (why not 4 or 3 days a week a this point?) the people are again forced to work 60 or more hours a week to survive and now they'll have to do it for more years again, instead of having to work for fewer years by just being more productive and gaining more purchasing power.

    The government programs, gov't spending, gov't system has destroyed the benefit of the productivity that the free market capitalism provided.

    I would love to take all the Socialists, Marxists, Communists and simply put them together on the other side of the planet from myself, while the people who value individual liberties and freedoms could be free from these parasites, destroyers of life, the anti-life forms on the other side of the planet.