NASA launches a billion-dollar Earth science mission Trump tried to cancel

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NASA launches a billion-dollar Earth science mission Trump tried to cancel
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It really is an ideological conflict between people who want humanity to be a civilization, and people that are content with us continuing to be monkeys throwing feces at one another in the dirt.

Civilizations have to aspire be more than they are, and not terms of individuals growing their dragon hoards of greed and glut.

TBF, if you’re really, really good at throwing feces, civilization sounds like a poor way to maximize the value of your skill. 🫤

Way to go people of NASA! 🙌🏼 🍾

Keep defending the truth!

If only NASA could cancel Turnip.

"Hey Mr President, want to be the first president in space? Only the best and most manly presidents will ever make it to space."

Oops, rocket blew up.

Just get the orange useless even as a paperweight fool to go on a blue origin ride

Can achieve the same goal

Trump would be a worthy Challenger. (badjoke)

This just made me realize I have never eaten a turnip before.

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NASA's latest mission dedicated to observing Earth's oceans and atmosphere from space rocketed into orbit from Florida early Thursday on a SpaceX launch vehicle.

This mission will study phytoplankton, microscopic plants fundamental to the marine food chain, and tiny particles called aerosols that play a key role in cloud formation. These two constituents in the ocean and the atmosphere are important to scientists' understanding of climate change. The mission's acronym, PACE, stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem.