The current government is cutting funding for schools and a host of national research centers, labs, organizations while trying to get to Mars. How could it be more perverted?
How can people be blind to the damage this government is doing to this country (& the world) for decades to come???
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| ✏️ Elon Musk is on a mission to take over NASA—and Mars. The world’s richest man has extraordinary influence on many U.S. federal agencies as a leader of DOGE. But NASA is where Musk is making the biggest shift in an agency’s priorities to align them with his own, both financially and personally. Separately, AI is reshaping overlooked corners of rural America. Finally, we explain how to avoid oversharing personal data with chatbots. |
Emma Tucker
Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal
| Musk is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to Mars, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX. |
| The billionaire is working to recast NASA’s programs, reallocate federal spending and install loyalists to aid his decadeslong goal of sending people to Mars, report Emily Glazer and Micah Maidenberg. Musk has also worked to win backing from Trump by telling the president that getting people to Mars would burnish his legacy as a “president of firsts.” The push to reach Mars could be transformational for SpaceX, which has emerged as the dominant space technology and operations company globally and is already one of NASA’s biggest contractors. |
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The Little Prince and the Fox 