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About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

...................this is a 2 paragraph article.

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

And those leaving will heavily represent the ones who can most easily get a comparable or better job elsewhere, the most uniquely talented. Way to hinder the space program.

[-] JayBeeTX@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Should have instead cut funding to the SLS…

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 123 points 1 week ago

Depart is such a passive way to say they're fired

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 week ago

they're using that language to mix the resignees with the firees.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hurray! Everyone's getting laid!!

Oh, there's one more word on this memo, but it's kinda smudged and hard to read

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

This is what we need! Less science, more militarized law enforcement!

[-] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 7 points 1 week ago

Trump: We don't have many illegal migrants in space, so...

[-] prex@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

It OK, you can call them aliens.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

In space the aliens are legal

[-] JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I say we carry on as usual and deport them anyway

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Good luck.fomding a place to deport them to that's not in space

[-] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

We'll have to tow them outside the environment.

[-] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago

Had a job interview at their Ames facility back in December. It was an interesting opportunity, and it required a LOT of sacrifices in terms of commute and workload, but I could've made it work. Then they tried to pull the "Could we interest you in a contractor position?" switcheroo at the end of the hiring process and I noped the fuck out. The next week, Trump announced he was cutting all contractor jobs and freezing new hires for the agency.

Lmfaoooo

Guess the burnout is real. I couldn't believe how much of a dump the place was honestly. Shit is being held together with duct tape, zip ties, and free veteran labor.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

I couldn't believe how much of a dump the place was honestly. Shit is being held together with duct tape, zip ties, and free veteran labor.

And the DOGE boys will see that and use it as evidence they deserve even less, ratger than seeing that's what things have been reduced to due to budget cuts.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Are you questioning the wisdom of Big Balls?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

NASA is such a gift to the world.

Let's hope it can survive this administration.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

There will be more people resigning and taking the same jobs elsewhere in the world where this mission still means something, and they'll be welcome with open arms.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

probably EU if thier stem degrees is useful enough. no way in hell its going to be in a university in us, when funding in general is under attack all the time.

DLR is hiring

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Trump, you can't have your space gate faster that way.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Are you tired of winning yet?

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