We spent around $1B to develop and launch OCO 1 (failed launch), 2, and 3 combined. Continued operations of OCO 2 and 3 cost about $15M per year in total. Destroying them would be like destroying a skyscraper that is a few years old and costs $15M in annual maintenance. That would be a very cheap building to maintain I'm guessing.

Once on orbit, satellite are extremely cheap and it is our best interests to keep them alive as long as possible.

Unless you’re gonna shoot him yourself there’s not much we can do about this. They don’t care about protests. They don’t care about letters to Congress. You can’t negotiate with them.

We’re a stupid country who deserves this.

So much better to see the oil deposits, my dear.

It makes me sad how confident I am that this would work.

Democracies, that haven’t fallen, across the world will still collect this data, or build up to the point of being able to. Which means, the US plans to suppress those countries’ news and data too. Or, in other words, lock down the internet for their population like China does.

It makes no economic sense if you value science and the contribution it makes to our economy, our society, our future.

But science has no political loyalty

They could probably just show him a video of some NASA employees knocking over one of those giant satellite dishes people used for TV in the 1980s and have him convinced.

There's plenty more assholes where Trump came from, unfortunately.

Which space program are you hoping to eliminate?

I wouldn't be so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to nuke it and EMPs the entire world, then with some Olympic level mental gymnastics, blames the Dems for his stupidity

And executed by the executive branch, with a gun. The scrotus safety switch is fully in the off position.

Not anymore. "congress" aproves their irrelevitization since its Republicans

https://sh.itjust.works/post/43514203?scrollToComments=true

Trump is pressuring other countries to follow suit with his stupid bullshit, he would have a fit if somebody took it over

These people are seriously the dumbest. The other day I was told that "finally Trump is fixing this shit" and that "tariffs are the price for doing business" and that I "have to pay them and can no longer freeload by spending money on healthcare". Didn't get an answer when I asked if he even knows how tariffs work and why it could possibly be that USA spends more money on healthcare per capita than any other nation in the world

Cause the sattelite to deorbit onto the whitehouse?

Humanity might survive if it’d happen

You think the current president's contingency plan isn't to just nuke everywhere and everything?

I live in the USA. I hate the current administration. I don’t want to be removed from the map.

just remove USA from the map

The real “Gulf of America”, just north of the Gulf of Mexico

MAGA is actually MANGA.

If you ever have to give a Dern. Let it be Bruce. One of the best Dern actors there is.

It's a fantastic idea, really clever. But I'm afraid it's too late, it doesn't have the necessary Delta-V. We could have tried it if we had planned the mission a month ago, but at this point we just can't get there in time (We didn't know its trajectory a month ago, so it's a moot point). What it comes down to is this, to make a flyby it would need about 2.5k Delta V, Juno has about half that.

Also, we're not confident Juno's engines will light. We've previously refrained from using them for some planned manners because we recorded abnormalities the last time they were fired. There's a decent chance engines would explode if used again.

If we want to be able to take advantage of this kind of situation in the future, we'll need at least one of two things... More probes, just sitting around with more fuel to spare, or better detection abilities so we can find these objects with more time to get to them. I'm betting on the later approach.

What kind of trajectory is that assuming? The closest approach of 3l-Atlas to Jupiter is in March and will be 54 million km away. Is this end of the month timing to get it off of Jupiter's orbit and closer to 3l-Atlas's orbit? How will it achieve the 61km/sec intercept speed of the comet?

Whilst he’s on it.

Just for reference:

The Mussolini government was the longest-lasting government in the history of Italy. The Cabinet administered the country from 31 October 1922 to 25 July 1943, for a total of 7,572 days, or 20 years, 8 months and 25 days.

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When people talk about fascism, they usually mention his most famous apprentice, but Benito is the real deal. He wrote the book. If you follow this path, you can expect to find the bloodbath in a few decades. Realistically though, there’s also a safer way out when the king is too sick to continue, but that could still take too long.

With what funding to pay the lawyers with?

A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."

Could also "accidentally" leak all the data, in case there are no non-US backups.