• @[email protected]
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        522 years ago

        A budget that goes into space exploration, development of groundbreaking science that has its use both in space and on Earth, popularization of science among masses, democratizing access to cutting-edge knowledge, making it free for everyone, including kids and the poor, to access at any time? Yes, please.

        • a Kendrick fan
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          22 years ago

          Especially if you don’t live in the shitty country. Yes please, sacrifice the physical and mental wellbeing of Americans for an indepth knowledge of the Universe just before you regress into full facism. Your war crimes won’t be overlooked though.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 years ago

            NASA isn’t sacrificing American’s wellbeing, regressing into fascism, or committing war crimes. That’s multiple other branches of the government. Despite whatever media you’re consuming the US gov isn’t one unified dictatorship, as much as a certain political group would like it to be.

            NASA is one of the few branches of our government that’s actually somewhat decent and doesn’t need a complete overhaul to benefit our country or world. It’s already paying us back the relatively small budget allocated to them in several ways. So your comment is basically a whataboutism.

          • DarkenLM
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            252 years ago

            I am not even American, but I do know that the US Army budget makes the NASA budget look like pocket change.

            I’d say you’re focusing on the wrong sector…

            • @[email protected]
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              102 years ago

              Seriously, I’m always confused by people complaining about NASA’s budget. It’s peanuts in comparison to the other stuff our Government wastes money on. Also doesn’t help that the government itself is responsible for a lot of the money wasting that happens at NASA. The Artemis program being the perfect example, which is basically just a glorified jobs program at this point, as mandated by the government, instead of actually being a smart way of building a rocket.

              • @[email protected]
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                62 years ago

                US americans are complaining for nasa, public schools if they don’t have kids, public health sector, even for bike lanes because they use no bikes, but almost never for all the military expenses on the other side of the earth.

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 years ago

                  People who are so uneducated that they think funding public education is a bad investment are great proof of why we need better public education…

          • @[email protected]
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            That would be great, but that’s not NASA’s department. Try Congress first. Then the DOD. Edit: and then the morally bankrupt billionaires.

      • MrScottyTay
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        152 years ago

        Maybe you’s could do a similar thing for healthcare and get healthcare for free, like this new nasa+ thing. Wouldn’t that be wild

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          But what about the profits of insurance companies that act as gatekeepers to your healthcare?? Are those people just supposed to get different jobs? Bet you didn’t think about who you would be hurting

          Sarcasm

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          You mean like that pharmaceutical research the US taxpayers subsidize, then let someone else patent?

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            Govt research grants are not videos literally being published by the govt. They aren’t particularly comparable siuations. It’s why I can’t just buy a stock of Disney and suddenly have free access to their IP. Meanwhile I can rehost whole programs put out by NASA with zero issue.

            I get the anger and it’s justified, but man is it misdirected here.

          • TheMurphy
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            52 years ago

            In this case, free in the rest of the world as well.

            They could geo-lock it if they wanted, but that’s not the road NASA likes to take in general.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Good question. I think as long as you can already access the NASA app, NASA TV (it’s on YouTube, too), and NASA’s websites, then this should be no different. IIRC one press release said they wanted to share their content “with the world”, so it sounds like that’s a yes, but again I’m not 100% sure. Hopefully we find out in a few days :)

      • @[email protected]
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        352 years ago

        Not only is it not allowed to be DRM’d, “US government IP” is itself an oxymoron: stuff published by the government is Public Domain, so it doesn’t even count as “intellectual property [sic]” to begin with.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of the content is already freely downloadable from somewhere…

    • @[email protected]
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      422 years ago

      Most NASA stuff is published under non affiliation free use license - you can do what ever you like with it.