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The orbiter photos are being withheld from the public. This is understandable in that the orbiter cameras were never intended to take this kind of photos so they take a ton of processing. Raw photos usually released quickly aren’t being released because NASA and the ESA do not want to have unprocessed photos sparking wild rumors of Alien starships. Predictably the screams of coverup have become shrill. Even when we get photos in another day or two a lot of people are going to scream conspiracy theories.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, October 05, 2025 - 08:17 pm: Edit

It's just like when they faked the moon landings.

--Mike

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 - 11:03 am: Edit

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory just laid off 550 folks, pushing the Artemis series of missions even further into delay.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 06:04 am: Edit

NASA photo of the day stopped working 1 Oct.

I am going to risk a gator attack, and none of you will be allowed to follow my lead.

This whole argument comes down to a few billion to continue a subsidy program that was designed to take care of a short term crisis (Covid) with a short term subsidy that was scheduled to expire but one side wants to continue forever. That and half as many billions to give Medicaid to non-citizens who were never legally able to receive it but somehow were given by checks by government officials.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 09:00 am: Edit

There's a somewhat weedier issue at hand as well - that of rescissions - which doesn't get as much media play for the simple reason that it is quite weedy for Joe Average to follow. Obviously, I won't be discussing it here, but yeah.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 04:13 pm: Edit

You are lucky, Jessica. If I were doing it, I would put Dave Ramsey in charge of the budget and tell him "cut out the garbage and balance the budget; I locked up the entire Congress in Gitmo." You might be at pains to publicly defend some of the garbage that has become an institution. The big argument Dave and I would have is I would want to balance it in three years and he would say he could do it in three days. The problem is that cutting the budget by a third would send a fatal shock through the economy as a few hundred thousand bureaucrats found themselves on the unemployment line. Even the booming Cole-Fired Economy would not be able to absorb them into new actually product jobs in a week. Hence three years. We can discuss specific programs scheduled to die off line sometime when I'm not buried in F&E rules. (I just finished the WYN rules. Boy, what a hornet's nest. I'd rather fight Congress than the WYNs.)