Complete brain damage in charge. It is one thing to suppress uncomfortable data not supporting your ideological narrative, but it is outright stupidity to not only not collect that data and keep it under wraps; but to destroy the data collection device you own and control.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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We spent around $1B to develop and launch OCO 1 (failed launch), 2, and 3 combined. Continued operations of OCO 2 and 3 cost about $15M per year in total. Destroying them would be like destroying a skyscraper that is a few years old and costs $15M in annual maintenance. That would be a very cheap building to maintain I'm guessing.
Once on orbit, satellite are extremely cheap and it is our best interests to keep them alive as long as possible.
Not to mention that the money spent isn’t being shot into space. It’s paying for very smart folks to spend in their local communities doing helpful work.
Do you want people with knowledge of orbital mechanics and operating spacecraft on the open job market? Who do you think will employ them?
Who do you think will employ them?
Normally I'd say Spectre, Gru, M.A.D, etc. but I think they've all disbanded as they now have US cabinet posts. I guess they should emigrate to Canada or Mexico and help prepare to defend themselves from the inevitable "security visit" that will start to happen.
If nothing else they could just leave it be
Being that they're in low earth orbit, they do require some human intervention for station keeping. They also need to monitor the orbits and move the satellite at times to avoid collisions with debris. Lastly, they need to monitor for anomalies so that, if something does go wrong, they can safely dispose of the satellite before the satellite itself becomes another piece of debris.
That, plus data collection and dissipation are the reason the satellites cost $15M/year to operate. The administration wants OCO2 deorbited. I'm not sure what they want done with OCO3 since it is attached to the ISS.
Just let MS Copilot take care of it
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They're literally burning our tax dollars....we could fucking sell the data... regardless his Nazi ass had no right to destroy this
The regime is blatantly all-in on melting all the ice sheets
So much better to see the oil deposits, my dear.
Smells less like the old blunt ignorance and climate change denial, but actually destroying detailed proof of what happens in real time due to their inaction.
Remember: it is your duty to kick a republicunt in the balls.
mangione intensifies
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They could just hand it over to ESA, hell they could even "sell" it
What in the flying fuck nuts is this inanity‽‽‽
We need 18747 ASAP.