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Full article here.
Just some bits I found interesting:
I think if you believe in facts and science, or believe that angels are real like a child believes in Santa Claus, we can all agree that research into severe weather is needed. And NASA I believe is overall very important to us as a nation that cutting anything from their already small budget is a bad decision.
Just some bits I found interesting:
The committee's markup of the NASA authorization bill for fiscal 2016 and 2017 passed on a party-line vote, Republicans in the majority. The action followed what appears to be a deliberate attempt to keep Democrats out of the loop. According to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), the committee's ranking Democrat, her caucus "did not even know [the markup] existed before last Friday. ... After we saw the bill, we understood why."
The Earth Science division, the organization continued, helped monitor the movement of oil into Gulf of Mexico coastal waters after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, track severe storms and tornadoes, and assisted with flood predictions and earthquake response.
I think if you believe in facts and science, or believe that angels are real like a child believes in Santa Claus, we can all agree that research into severe weather is needed. And NASA I believe is overall very important to us as a nation that cutting anything from their already small budget is a bad decision.