For fucks sake. I'm so done with everything always getting worse
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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This one actually does make sense. He actually knows what the fuck is going on. He's not just a stooge trying to cozy up to Trump.
He has experience with NASA, space contractors, and has been in space performing research for NASA. The Overview Effect shouldn't be discounted.
What is the Overview Effect?
The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus". The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer's self concept and value system, and can be transformative.
Well you've made me feel slightly better about it at least. Time will tell how this works out for NASA
Oh look, another billionaire in a position of power.
Fucker is gonna turn NASA into Aperture.
Off with his head!
I hope ESA takes the opportunity and catches up to NASA. They only need something like 60 years of US idiocracy. /s
It won't take more than a decade or so for the majority of US academics to relocate to the EU, as long as they don't also succumb to the broke mind virus of conservative narcissism-masquerading-as-a-political-ideology.
And Jared Harris remains the only decent Jared.
Again ? I feel like I've seen this news 3 times already in the last year.