A limited-government genie appears to you and says “I’m going to shut down everything in the U.S. government except what you tell me to keep”

What do you say?

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I posted the following:

Please don’t shutdown Nasa’s DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) probe!

This sun-orbiting probe photographs planet earth’s daylit side (stationed near the sun-earth ‘L1’ point, some 1 million miles sunward from earth) approximately every hour or two, 7 x 24, 365 days a year, through a 12-inch Cassegrain telescope.

If I recall correctly, the DSCOVR probe was shut down—as far as the public having any access to its data—during Trump’s entire first administration. But DSCOVR isn’t really a “Climate” observatory—despite its name—rather, DSCOVR observes earth’s _weather_ and the planet itself, providing a public service with this data—the only earth-observing probe to watch our planet from such a sun-centered and daytime-oriented vantage point.

For an example of its utility, much broader than just talking about “climate,” earlier this year I prepared an animated-gif based on DSCOVR pics showing Antarctica rotating round the south pole during the last (2023) southern summer solstice—as one can see below.

I humbly request that the DSCOVR probe not be shut down _this time_ during Trump’s second term in office. Thank you most sincerely for your attention!

@ElonMusk
@VivekGRamaswamy
@realDonaldTrump

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Space News was bought by the same outfit that bought Doug Messier’s Parabolic Arc and ran it into the ground. I assume it will take a similar trajectory.