Also, the entire fund/defund cycle for NASA in part feeds the military industrial complex. The skills it takes to get a rocket to very specific parts of the moon. Very niche. Turns out the engineer doing that can only really work in private space or missles after we lay them off to 'save money'

April 06, 2026 - 02:18 UTC

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Like, you think you're trimming the fat, but you're just moving Steve the Rocket Engineer from a cost center of peace to a cost center of war.
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My spouse just got offered a job to help military drones target humans.

She also worked on Gravity Probe B, a NASA contract.

(She chose not to work for a military contractor, so there's that... we're choosing to starve ourselves instead of make weapons).
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