Comments on: Trump budget proposes putting a final end to the delayed and blocked Thirty Meter Telescope https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:06:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1593229 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:06:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1593229 Odd how a right wing cut amounts to a left wing/Green win.

Doubly sickening.

]]> By: Dave in Denver https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592562 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:29:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592562 TMT was becoming another activist grift. Sue, compromise, sue again. Nothing gets built. So why fund it? Quite the shame. Imagine what it could have been.

]]> By: Gary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592308 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 03:04:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592308 Mr Pratt,

You sparked a thought for me. One of the great tragedies of the 20th century was the transformation of government from limited guarantor of basic rights into unlimited provider of employment.

]]> By: Robert Pratt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592267 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:13:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592267 “soulless” budget cuts? Since when has taking working families’ money, coercively, and throwing it into the pits of relatively unproductive bureaucracy been soulful?

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592201 Sat, 31 May 2025 21:50:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592201 In reply to Patrick Underwood.

To All: I have now posted about this story.

To blow my own horn, I must remind all that I first expressed this possibility in March.

Is the nomination of Jared Isaacman as NASA’s administrator facing political headwinds?

It seems without doubt that Trump wants major budget cuts, and will not tolerate anyone in his administration who might fight him on this.

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592188 Sat, 31 May 2025 21:24:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592188 Ugh… looks legit https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=61990.msg2690733;topicseen#new

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592186 Sat, 31 May 2025 21:21:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592186 Politico (yes I know) is reporting that the Administration has pulled Jared Isaacman.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-budget-proposes-putting-a-final-end-to-the-delayed-and-blocked-thirty-meter-telescope/#comment-1592158 Sat, 31 May 2025 19:10:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114514#comment-1592158 It just isn’t your day if you are an astronomer–Starlinks everywhere, soulless cost cutting.

If Trump is going to cut the telescope—I want to see the rock worshippers get some come-uppance too–they were the worst..

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