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Another Science Facility Bites the Dust, Temporarily
An anonymous reader writes "Today, the latest victim of the U.S. government shutdown, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
shut its doors and essentially mothballed all three of its radio
telescope facilities: the Very Large
Array or VLA (think Jodie Foster, Contact); the Green Bank
Telescope, and the Very Long
Baseline Array or VLBA. While the ALMA telescope is not yet
affected (mainly due to it being run by a consortium of European,
Japanese, Chilean and U.S. organizations), the U.S. funds for that will soon
also dry up. Not only does this furlough most of the ~550 employees, it has also
thrown a monkey wrench into many long-term carefully planned observations
(to the tune of wasting half a million dollars and a year's worth of
work). Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society also has a commentary
on the closure — and a plea to 'stop the madness.'"
Well, obama could always take the easier way out and have the democrates in the senate take up the individual funding bills the house had passed instead of demanding all or nothing.
But i guess the news didn't report a parks officer saying he got orders to make the shutdown as painful as possible or a top whitehouse official say they were fine with the shutdown because they were winning if obama actually cared about it.
Source?
Oh, nevermind. You really should take a break from your normal programming from time to time. I would have simply discounted you, but I've seen several posts mentioning the intentional painfulness with no corroboration outside the usual complete nutters.
You are either the third most dedicated troll I have seen, or incredibly biased towards preconceived notions to the point that I would suggest considering if you have ever been brainwashed. Seriously. And I will be looking for a source, preferably from a place that doesn't mention Alex Jones, lizard people, the Illuminati, or Skull and Bones.