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Obama's 2016 NASA Budget Status Quo, Funds Europa Mission

Posted by samzenpus on from the paying-bills dept.

MarkWhittington writes The Washington Post reported that the NASA portion of the president's 2016 budget proposal is basically status quo though it does provide further funding for a mission to Europa. A Europa probe is near and dear to the new chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA, Rep. John Culberson. However, the $18.5 billion budget proposal also funds the asteroid redirect mission, which has come under increasing fire from both Congress and the scientific community. The Houston Chronicle suggested that the final spending bill will be considerably different once congressional Republicans get through with it.

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  1. Europa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I was told not to attempt any landings there

    1. Re:Europa by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Funny

      Tell them there's oil there. If you tell them there's life, they'll probably want to nuke the place lest the Evangelicals' version of Yahweh be brought into question by those evil scientists.

      --
      The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
    2. Re:Europa by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      But then they'll try to fund a pipeline from Europa to American refineries so that they can sell the gasoline to China.

    3. Re:Europa by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm pretty sure evangelicals are a growing proportion of Christians in the USA.

      (Outside the US, yes, they're a tiny minority, but the US is full of nuts.)

    4. Re:Europa by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hello from 2015!!! I see you are a time-traveler from the year 2034 (since the movie "2010" starring Roy Scheider came out in 1984), or have somehow discovered a rift in the space-time continuum by which you can communicate with the past. Can you please tell us about life in 2034 and what mistakes we can avoid?

  2. Europa by Zalbik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Europa?!?!

    Well that's it, we're doomed.

    Thanks Obama