Cutting Your Nose To Spite Your Face

This headline says it all. Science vs. the Bush Administration. When it gets in the way of military projects for the weaponization of space say, or if it is controversial by pointing out patterns of global warming and climate change. Then out come the budget scissors and snip, snip. No more need to censor NASA when you can go for the jugular and put it on basic lifesupport.

Water discovery vs. NASA budget cuts The potential discovery of liquid water on a moon of Saturn is bittersweet for many scientists. The discovery, however, is bittersweet for many scientists. NASA's proposed budget for fiscal 2007 calls for a 50 percent cut in its astrobiology program. Although the program is a tiny piece of the agency's overall spending plan for science, it's a significant source of money for probing fundamental questions of how and why life emerged on Earth and whether life arose elsewhere in the universe. A 50-percent cut "is almost a going-out-of-business-level cut" in a vibrant line of research that stands as one pillar supporting President Bush's vision for space exploration, says planetary scientist Sean Solomon, who heads the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington More NASA articles.

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