UPDATE: Chandra X-Ray Center has just been notified that NASA is making funding available to pay staff salaries until September 2025. That’s a huge win for the campaign. If you watched, shared, or commented, thank you for your part in helping #SaveChandra!
Great news. Bdw Chandra means Moon in Sanskrit/Hindi , but this one was named after a renowned Indian-American nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
I used to work in a Congressional staff office. Make sure to CALL your member of Congress. The call tally sheets are delivered straight from the interns answering the phones to your representative. Emails are handled purely by staff.
The comments complaining have hundreds of likes. This comment that actually tells you the correct way to take action and do something about the issue only has 20 Shows you where everyone’s head is at in society
@@craigape this comment is the epitome of irony. You sound like the least informed about the situation. Go do some reading instead of speaking out of your ass.
To be fair, the US doesn't even have the money for any of the top 5 most expensive programs, that being medicare, medicaid, nuclear weapons, income security programs, and social security. Yes that is correct, the military doesn't make the top 5. Roughly 60% of the 'defense' budget is nukes.
Tbf, i feel like the us budget should go to soooo many things (schools, hospitals, social programs, public transit,...) but everything is better then the money wasted on the military. And it's double wasted as most money doesn't even fund the military, but just goes to make few dudes even richer
The US has a spending problem in and outside the military. We could save millions without military price gouging but we also need to focus on the inefficient spending we do in other sectors. Spending more on healthcare than other countries but not having access to affordable healthcare is a crime. The US has the money it just needs to not waste it
my grandpa worked on the mirrors for chandra and hubble with ball back in the day!! i’m so proud of him and he loves to tell his engineering stories!! i hope they can find the funding for many more years
Extinction event? BS. Why USA tax prayers are expected to the bill to save the entire world? Only $64M. Australia could easily pick up that bill, right?
Money for bombs, but not for healthcare. Money for guns, but not for infrastructure. Money for war, but not for scientific study. America, are you great yet?
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 The overwhelming majority of the technology we enjoy today is hand-me-down technology from military research labs, does the internet ring a bell? Military science is about 15 to 30 years ahead of civilian science and will continue to be the place where most technical advancements are handed down via patent sales.
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 Generally it works the opposite way, military research discovers principle and application, that trickles down into civilian application. Things like rocketry and digital electronics are good examples.
@@robertm3329 the Internet is a child of the military. I agree that contractors are bleeding us dry and there is DEFINITELY corruption but we're funding most of NATO so we've put ourselves in a position that we can't get out of
If you count Florida State Congress they made it law that if you touch a kid under 12 they can give you the big sleep West Virginia has passed a law bumping their minimum marriage age to 18.
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Since repugs are offering no legislation and blocking everything else, don't worry about Chandra... worry about EVERYTHING not getting funded... cancer research, infrastructure repair, supporting our allies, veterans healthcare... by all means let's bitch and moan about 0.01% of people affected by transgender issues. Pffft
Original NASA wasn't really about space travel as much as intercontinental missiles in the first place. Most nasa invented items eventually go to the military. Nasa and the military is linked way more than people even realize. Everything from satellites to Velcro.
Knowledge is wonderful.! Valuable for development. What is the value of a human life? I want to see what's out there as much as anyone call me and my imagination explodes! If money spent to progress what is used to house and feed and a house feed, how much more valuable does that we have all the time in an eternity to progress. It's only selfish to put these interests in front of our fellow human beings
to put into perspective, Chandra costs about as much as a single F16. not to mention the US has over 900 of them. im pretty sure they can afford one more.
Chandra cost 1.65 billion, an f16 costs about 70 million. So for the price of 20 ish f-16s the US could build another one. You can have FREEDOM or you can have scientific research. Your leaders chose Freedom and the capitalist benefits that come with it. Give it a few hundred years and it will trickle down.
@@alkeryn1700if you want to compare apple to apples, try to find the operational costs for F-16, and it looks this even worse. The operational cost of Chandra is even lower than the F-16.
I temporarily worked with a project hosted by the chandra micro-observatory to take the pictures they crafted and colorize or otherwise photoshop the pictures to get more kids interested in space. Very cool and fulfilling work, i hope they keep it open or replace the telescope! Fantastic source material to work with!
The fact we have to ask, beg, or expect anything constructive involving congress is already an issue in and of itself. The fact they get paid at all or have any kind of merit is a joke.
They don’t give a damn about us in the least. They’ll all be dead of old age before the environment is damaged beyond repair or before the social security runs out. So they still get to run the country how they like it because they know they’ll be long gone before it even matters. The average age of a citizen in the U.S is 38.9 years old, it’s 58.4 for congress and 64.3 for Senators.
@@trudilm3864yes they do for example india. You know what politicians did here? Cut the funding to the space programme. Last year was when the lunar landing took place, the same year (long before the mission) the current party in power cut the space programmes funding. And when the landing happened successfully, didn't wait a second plastering their own faces (not the faces of the scientists who worked on the mission) on posters advertising the success of the Indian space programme
Thank you for this! I have been working with Chandra data for several years now, including on some of the galaxies you showed. The science I, and many others currently do is not possible without Chandra. The current defunding of Chandra for no discernible reason is already a huge detriment to the scientific community, and our ability to investigate the most energetic events in the universe. And this is only going to get worse if Congress continues defunding it without considering any replacement.
I used to want to work for nasa but that dream died when I realized it was a part of government bureaucracy that’s subject to stupid decisions Edit this isn’t attacking anyone I just don’t like that the people in charge don’t fund the one thing their department is dedicated to
So people's money should be stolen from them in order to give you a toy you like to work with? Hell no. Go get a real job and stop defending government overreach.
Well technically can be considered a surveillance equipment in space. For any gamma ray event that can destroy all spaces equipment and even treating life existance on this planet. From super novas or even a Avance civilization. Activity. In space.
@classicalAnime The only two options I see are to clear house completely (as in to not leave even a single incumbent, even in the Supreme Court) or to hit the reset button and perhaps try a different system.
@@lunavarion all I will say is that the founders, particularly Madison (who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), were extremely careful students of history, and were quite well aware about the consequences of hastily overthrowing government. Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence said: (revolution) shall not be done for “light and transient causes”. And I’m sure everyone here wants to jump right away and say our current situation meets that threshold. And to that I say, study history.
@geo5873 Definitely not. Republics are nice on paper. In practice, though, they always seem like the ideal platform for corrupt, power-hungry individuals to claim power and become totalitarian. For examples, look at Rome and the current, American government.
probably most of them think like this. what scientist found in space they always make some kind of theory breakthrough in PAPER while war's need more weapon more bullet more supplier more buyer and that bring more money
@@CaseyTheAlpha Those technological innovations are not at all useful to anyone not in the military. I would be perfectly happy if there was never again military technological advancement
@@mr.dirtydannnnn Then log off the internet. Never use super glue. You like the radio and all the various things powered by radio waves? Gone like the wind with your cellphones, gps, rc cars, television, hell even wireless clocks and garage door openers. Modern day airplanes use a jet engine, this engine was created by Nazis. I mean the list can go on forever. Technological innovations are sparked by wars. Not just Military tech, all tech.
That's a good way of making certain that only the wealthy can ever hold a position of power in the government. The wealthy don't need a pay check. The ones who are like you and I do. Make it so they can't invest in the market.
The fact that you think they actually follow a budget is the problem. Look at their bank accounts. Why is mine smaller while people like aoc are magically worth 20 mil at least.
Chandra telescope. For Space Astranomy. Uptodate one for 2025 budget to get approval. Thank you . Arizona Congressman. Leadership awareness. Thank you . USA 🇺🇸 Arizona peace and joyful blessings.
They've spent TRILLIONS on trying to find "Life" on the moon since 1969. Never once staying 24 hours there. Next trip will be September 2025 at the cost of $4.1 BILLION. N.A.S.A. Numbskulls Astronomical Spending Allowance
It has always upset me how little money goes into our space program. And look how much we can do with it already. They could double the budget and Congress wouldn't even feel it, it's one of our smaller expenses in the annual budget. It would have greta positive affects on all of science.
@@SaltywengiellWe spend over 50% of our budget on the massive amount of corruption that is social entitlements. Social Security, which Congress steals from, welfare, which continues to perpetuate the cycle of poverty in communities, Medicare and Medicaid which abused by doctors, medical companies to no end and is extremely inefficient. Don’t get me wrong, military spending is a problem too, but it’s much much smaller in comparison to our other problems.
1. Prolonging the Operational Life of Chandra: Engineering and Mission Management 1.1. Orbital Optimization and Fuel Efficiency Dynamic Orbit Maintenance: Use multi-variable optimization algorithms to calculate propellant-efficient orbital adjustments. Exploit Earth’s albedo effect and gravitational perturbations for passive trajectory corrections. Adapt to a low-energy transfer window system to prioritize maneuvers that minimize fuel usage. Solar Radiation and Atmospheric Drag Utilization: Leverage solar radiation pressure torques for micro-adjustments to orbital alignment. Conduct simulations to determine the upper thresholds of drag compensation at apogee points. Hybrid Orbital Stabilization: Combine minimal propellant burns with reaction wheel momentum dumping to maintain operational altitude. 1.2. Gyroscope and Momentum System Management Gimbal Realignment for Reduced Wear: Implement advanced algorithms for gimbal redistribution to balance rotational stress on gyroscopes. Use vibration-smoothing models to dampen rotational oscillations from high-inertia observations. Kalman Filter Optimization: Develop Kalman-filter-based orientation prediction systems to stabilize pointing with degraded gyroscope accuracy. Virtual Gyroscope Techniques: Integrate astrometric triangulation from distant guide stars to simulate gyroscope input for fine-tuned stabilization. 1.3. Instrument Maintenance and Advanced Calibration CCD Aging Mitigation: Refine thermal cycling protocols to limit dark current accumulation in the ACIS (Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer). Deploy pixel-by-pixel statistical noise removal software to counteract quantum efficiency loss. High-Resolution Camera (HRC) Optimization: Reconfigure sensor modes to shift observational priority to low-usage zones of the detector array. Real-Time Adaptive Calibration: Introduce onboard processing pipelines capable of real-time correction for detector degradation. 1.4. Cost Mitigation and Operational Budgeting Multi-Nation Cooperative Funding: Engage ESA, JAXA, and CNSA in resource-sharing agreements for extended operational time. Propose observation-time exchanges with high-priority scientific projects to secure supplementary funding. Commercial Partnerships: Leverage collaborations with private aerospace companies like Blue Origin or SpaceX for extended maintenance logistics. --- 2. Leveraging Existing Observatories for a Coordinated Framework 2.1. Space-Based X-Ray Observatories XMM-Newton: Utilize its EPIC MOS and PN detectors for wide-field surveys, complemented by Chandra’s high-resolution targeting. Integrate RGS (Reflection Grating Spectrometer) data for detailed spectral line analysis in galactic winds and cooling flows. NuSTAR: Focus on cross-calibration with Chandra for hard X-ray observations of pulsars, magnetars, and ultraluminous X-ray sources. Pair soft-band Chandra data with NuSTAR’s hard-band coverage to reconstruct broadband emission profiles. E-ROSITA: Exploit its all-sky survey capacity for identifying large-scale filamentary structures in the cosmic web. Target high-flux regions detected by eROSITA with Chandra for precise follow-up imaging. 2.2. Terrestrial Observatories Radio (SKA, VLA): Synchronize with radio observatories to map jet structures in AGN and their synchrotron counterparts. Use spectral indices from radio emissions to predict X-ray luminosity in relativistic sources. Optical and Infrared (JWST, Subaru, VLT): Deploy mid-IR and NIR data from JWST to locate heavily obscured X-ray sources in star-forming galaxies. Cross-correlate optical spectra from Subaru with X-ray ionization models. 2.3. Multimodal Synergies LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Events: Match gravitational wave detections with Chandra observations to study post-merger kilonovae and fallback accretion. Gamma-Ray Transients: Pair high-energy gamma-ray burst data from Fermi-LAT or Swift with Chandra’s lower-energy X-ray tail emissions. --- 3. Advanced Computational Solutions for Post-Chandra Science 3.1. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence GAN-Based Image Reconstruction: Use generative adversarial networks to synthetically enhance resolution in noisy or partially degraded images. Unsupervised Learning for Transients: Develop anomaly detection algorithms to identify rare transients in archival data. Neural Networks for Data Recovery: Train multi-layer perceptrons to interpolate missing data in incomplete X-ray spectra. 3.2. Archival Data Utilization Stacked Spectral Analysis: Combine multiple epochs of archival observations to amplify signal-to-noise ratios for faint sources. Historical Reprocessing: Revisit Chandra’s past surveys with modern statistical tools, extracting latent data from previously unprocessable datasets. 3.3. Theoretical Modeling and Simulation High-Fidelity Plasma Simulations: Model shock fronts in supernova remnants using relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD). Cosmic Structure Evolution: Simulate gas dynamics in galaxy clusters to predict X-ray observables based on gravitational potential wells. --- 4. Fast-Tracking Successor Missions: Lynx and Compact Satellites 4.1. Lynx X-Ray Observatory Mirror Assembly Advances: Deploy adjustable micro-shell optics for dynamic focusing. Expand focal plane coverage by 100× compared to Chandra. High-Resolution Microcalorimeters: Equip Lynx with ultra-sensitive TES (Transition-Edge Sensor) arrays for sub-eV spectral resolution. Accelerated Deployment Timelines: Utilize modular spacecraft construction to reduce pre-launch integration time. 4.2. Rapidly Deployable CubeSats Dedicated Missions: Launch CubeSats tailored for transient monitoring, such as GRBs or TDEs. Interconnected Networks: Establish constellations of small satellites for continuous sky coverage and real-time transient triangulation. --- 5. Extrapolated Multi-Wavelength Strategies 5.1. Optical/X-Ray Correlations Use scaling relationships between Hα luminosity and soft X-ray flux to estimate gas heating in galaxy clusters. 5.2. Synchrotron Emission Models Trace X-ray counterparts from radio synchrotron jets using combined SKA and ALMA datasets. 5.3. Polarimetric Studies Deploy high-precision polarimetric analysis to infer X-ray scattering properties. --- 6. Legacy Science and Strategic Observational Priorities 6.1. Key Science Drivers Dark Matter Mapping: Use X-ray lensing to constrain dark matter subhalo distributions. Compact Object Physics: Study spin evolution in black holes via spectral timing analysis. 6.2. Long-Term Survey Design Expand Chandra Deep Field programs to unprecedented depths for extragalactic studies. ---
My dad just got fired because this project isn't going through. He is one of the only people at the company that knows this technology really well and worked on the original one as well as the other ones. Thank you Congress for the loss of thousands of jobs for no reason. Keep spending money on war and giving money to other countries, but can't do a simple project like this.
War makes congress people money, and yeah, America needs all kinds of funding, our roads, bridges, railroads are all falling apart all across the country- I just travelled across the United States and it’s a mess - less than 10% of that ‘$1 trillion infrastructure bill’ went to transportation- look into where the rest of it went - and I feel like a criminal flying between our own cities, TSA needs to transfer all that equipment to the borders-
@@jeremey2072 'war makes money'? Wtf the us is one of the richest countries in the world. War doesn't make the state richer. It makes some individuals richer who won't be paying for your roads, bridges or whatever. If they wanted to, they would have repaired them years ago.
Contracting is important as it allows for more competition, ensuring that we end up with the best available tech for defense. However we could cut down on a few things, I’m not sure what, but cutting politicians’ salaries is definitely on the top of my list
Maximizing Impact with Strategic Focus In the face of limited resources, prioritization is key. Chandra’s remaining operational time and future instruments should focus on: Legacy Science: Long-term projects like AGN evolution, dark matter in galaxy clusters, and supernova remnants. High-Risk, High-Reward Targets: Rare transients like tidal disruption events or neutron star mergers.
Just imagine if there was a World nation without need for military....uffff the amount of extra money we would have for science, technology and development😮😮😮😢...
To put these prices in perspective. If what the US spends annually in its military were $100, this telescope maintenance price would be 1 cent or even less.
That still doesn't mean it's worth funding it cuz that means turning down other things for funding so is viewing events that occurred thousands of years ago really all that beneficial at this point
@@rickwar0How about we stop special treatment for illegals. Do you know how expensive that treatment is? A wall would be a fraction of the cost of paying for the illegals special treatment the Biden/Harris administration has been giving to illegals per year.
@@rickwar0get rid of 2 jets and keep the telescope. Save the same amount of money, keep the one of a kind, state of the art scientific instruments and tools. Miss out on one or two mass produced military industrial complex toys. They’ll have dozens of better jets rolling off the factory production lines in a couple years. If a particular research or study gets dropped it very very rarely gets picked back up.
@@JohnnyDanger0uswhat else outside of earth do you suggest we observe and study instead? Every long range event that is observed happened in the past, that doesn’t mean they’re not worth knowing about or studying. Eventually knowing enough about past events gives us information to model or predict future events. It’s not about having your head up in the clouds and commenting on ancient events far away. It’s about understanding the way the universe continues to work and function in the present.
I would rather save the telescope, which does more important work. Congress IS a huge mistake. Send most of SCOTUS, their dear leader, and the GOP into the nearest black hole instead of allowing them to continually warp our time, space, and reality here.
@@LRRPFco52 I am not from usa, but if I am correct you mean the Department of justice right? If so then I am confused cause I thought yours feds were really good at what they did.
which is a tiny percentage of all the hundreds of tax dollars payed by Americans every year, but hey guess it's better spent increasing the salaries of congress ppl
Thats still tax money that’s not going to benefit those who are paying for it. The Cold War over, no more need for national projects to demonstrate America capable outside of shooting wars. Go back to how they use to be funded by either private funding or partnerships with business…
"In the last quarter of 1979, the program cost of the U.S. F/A-18 aircraft increased by $5.1 billion, and the F-16 by $3.4 billion. Since their inceptions, significantly less has been spent on the unmanned planetary programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union than has been wasted shamefully - for example, between 1970 and 1975, in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, an application of national policy that cost $7 billion. The total cost of a mission such as Viking to Mars, or Voyager to the outer solar system, is less than that of the 1979-80 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Through technical employment and the stimulation of high technology, money spent on space exploration has an economic multiplier effect." From the final chapter of Cosmos.
We should keep an eye on as much as possible out there. Who knows what all may exist, and if someone or something shows up it would definitely be better to know ahead of time.
@@vanjamenadzer they're both for profit, and both for humanity. The space race resulted with lots good byproduct projects have made money, eg. Corelle dishes. Some wars are for-profit eg. Iraq, some wars are for survival, eg. Ukraine. I guess it all depends on which end of the gun you were on. Cheers!
@@The-Droll-and-LazyJoker Unfortunately, not entirely true. Space projects is more akin to an investment, and the advancements that come from it doesn't always translate into profit, though it is academically very important. War on the other hand... That's _immediately_ profitable. They just need to wave a tiny American flag and stir up some right-wing patriotism, and everybody goes nuts and never question why they're going to war.
We could get the money to save Chandra if we cut the salary of everyone in Congress by 100k. Then they would still make 79k, plus they could continue to do their insider trading for millions.
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The Chandra is named after Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, and it was launched on July 23, 1999.
No, going to the moon is not comparable to protecting vital supply chains for example. There is no collapse of livelihood if Chandra is destroyed tomorrow. Kids will go to school, there will be no famine, no 1930-style depression, no millions of dead. If China invade Taiwan because they know the USA don't have military planes or the willing to intervene guess what is going to happen? The problem with the military is the scams like the F-15EX costing 80 million dollars, but for people even if they don't have the brains to know the military is far more important than multibillion-dollar curiosity machines. In fact a good park for a community helps Americans more than the space telescope. Or use the 63 million dollars for housing.
No it’s literally just the military. the united states would be way better if they just took some money from the military’s budget for a few years to fix everything up thats wrong with our country like pollution and dirty cites and schools
Chandra sends me emails. I’ve been getting them for like 10 years. Weekly photo updates. I would be so sad if it stopped. They share the coolest images.
America needs to gets its act together . The people need to get back in charge because both parties , big Corp and bankers with their bail outs just takes our money , spend it and now limiting some of our rights in certain laws or passing bills that have more to it than they are saying .
@@JamesSchrader-i7opeoples attention is grabbed, the 74m + DT supporters plus other pro-liberty people, but the den lead establishment is in control and pushes mass propaganda keeping their half asleep. We are trying to fight big government and get called terrorists for it
@@JamesSchrader-i7oEveryone already knows this yet nothing will be done. That is why this country is doomed. It's unfortunate because we can be so much better.
@@davidcovey3001 if the country only has 1 fighter jet plane then you make a good point. I don’t know how many there are but I’m sure there’s a lot more than 1.. There’s even warships that carry multiple planes on board
@@davidcovey3001 You're rather ignorant to think that balancing military defense and scientific development means neccesarily cutting off one to fund the other. It is very *Telling*
But you’re wrong. Biden passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that to this day is underway. There is an article titled “At its two-year anniversary, the bipartisan infrastructure law continues to rebuild all of America” that also links to a White House website where you can see funding locations and active projects. Please do more research before making this kind of claim.
Exactly. This telescope is another waste of money. Who cares about x-rays in space?? Seriously. We have homeless people here right now that can use those millions of dollars. 😞
@@robertr7563 You're right, homelessness is a pressing issue. But don't forget that Chandra studies phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping us understand black holes and the universe's evolution. It's research helps us to develop real-world technology and inspires future scientists. It's a separate issue from homelessness, but scientific progress benefits us all.
Chandra telescope- named after noble prize winner Indian - American scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. He is mostly known for giving the Chandrashekhar limit.
I’m in Tennessee, I think I’m going to start looking at the sky at night . I’m in Murfreesboro. I work in Lebanon. I’m just surprised I haven’t seen anything . I kind of want to .
That's because spending in the military is arbitrary, it's not as simple as x costs that, the millitary purposefully wastes resources as that opens up more jobs for manufacturing which helps alleviate the cost in general, as since parts go from manufacturer to manufacturer who all want to make a profit the end result can be expensive, like 20x the original amount. The military is gonna get that money back anyways, there are two types of money, the money that the government owns and the money that the government will own.
Tip of the iceberg. The government has a $1.6 trillion annual "discretionary" budget, more than half of which (military+veteran benefits) goes to the military. Meanwhile housing, transportation, energy, science, agriculture (things that genuinely benefit citizens) get about $50-$100 billion each. The only things it spends more on is the "mandatory" spending on social security and medicare, both of which are funded through huge dedicated paycheck deductions.
governmets also funded literally the entire field of space science, without government spending we'd be stuck in the middle ages because zero scientific breakthroughs would have happened if we relied on private investors who want immediate pay off
@@FelixPiseckerI disagree completely, what fueled the space race was prestige and knowledge over our govt's perceived enemies. They pumped money in for an immediate return of their own: faster progress than the other guys. Now that they can't stroke their egos with that, there's cuts. I can't trust Uncle Sam as far as I can throw him.
@@FelixPisecker I could just as well say that if we only had left all that money in private hands it would have been invested more efficiently and given much better returns than anything the government did with it. But instead because the government steals money to do what it wants, we're badly behind in technological progress.
just letting you know if there were no leaders the government would still stand because the people would still be around. A government is just a group form of order for a country. If we had no leaders that we voted on and lived anarchy it would be worse.
I wrote a whole paper on why the funding for NASA should be significantly higher, and this pains me. I hope they get their heads out of their asses and use their budget properly
Are they sure it's not ASTROLOGY they're studying?. The level of scientific understand in Congress is minimal. ASTRONOMY is way about their level of understanding. 😊
@Readthis880 That's not how that works at all. Ukraine isn't getting money, it's getting military hardware. US weapons companies are getting the money, and that money is getting taxed, and going right back to the government.
Most Congressmen aren't scientists, they're lawyers. Don't expect them to understand how valuable Science is when their careers have been based upon subjective interpretations of reality and law.
@@OceanMan15_ Look up "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT", then come back and tell us about how an X-ray telescope is not valuable at all, and "we", because you're apparently speaking for yourself, do not gain anything from it. In other words, sit down and let the adults talk.
Fun fact, the entire apollo program (one of the most revolutionary and impressive endeavors in mankind) cost 100 billion dolllars over the course of 10 years, it cost the same as 2 months of the us military budget
Try 280 billion in todays money, about 4% of the national budget at its peak. Today that same 4% would look like over 800billion in funding as opposed to the $25billion they get.
NASA invents or buys inventions for the space agency. Thies inventions are then made available to the public for free . Spreading the wealth. The microwave oven is one of these inventions.
Maybe if Boeing wasn't one of the contractors, they'd have more $$$. Government tends to reward non perform ing contractors by giving them even more $$$$
@@churutvai1040 the moon itself is called Chandra, it's seen as a GOD (anything that helps us survive is seen as GOD in Hindu culture, like SUN, WATER, AIR, EARTH, etc) Also it wouldn't make sense to call the telescope Chandra as it has nothing to do with Moon.
@@nanashi7779Many cultures have names inspired by or full on taken from their deities. E.g. Jesus is not a very popular name for European Christians, but it is for Latin American Christians, as one example.
I'm glad you mentioned the comparison of cost of Chandra's maintenance budget to a single F-16 fighter jet. Why do warmongers get to hog most of the tax money when the USA is not in any declared war effort against an existential enemy threat? Why does the USA spend 3 times what the next biggest spender on defense spends, China--- 16 times what Russia spends? Why does Congress waste over a $trillion dollars per year on national security, and defense? Is the enemy threat anywhere near what they assert to the public? National defense is more about corruption than any real need.
@leebliss3622 to be fair, the education system in the USA has completed failed. That's the real reason people voted for tRump. We need a complete overhaul
Spend money into war = no goodhearted leaders. Why do you think the west wants everyone to ramp up the military. To keep everyone in check and in control, not for our safety, it's for theirs.
Actually, it’s not necessarily the one in charge. It could be as simple as the opposition not allowing a vote . Just to point out: Republican Party has been blocking everything for a year now. It’s an election and political strategy to make the other party look incompetent to the voters who DON’T pay attention to politics.
Just remember the people in charge are the same ones sending 200+ bn dollars to fund a war (in one single country out of many in one year) and they are also taking hundreds of millions in Tax payers money to fly and transport 10's of millions of illegal immigrants into hotels, buying entire buildings and renovating them and so on. In fact in 1 year The current admin has let more than the entire population of Australia into America,. This is why you need to vote RED
@@Aussie-Mocha Let’s not pretend that the (R) or a (D) beside a politicians name means anything, it’s called the Uniparty for a reason. Maybe if we keep sending billions to Ukraine, things will change. 🙄
@@galenmarek8287haha. Who's gonna allow you to stop sending money to Ukraine? Don't forget you're forced to do that because Ukraine gave all of its nukes to you years ago. You're not going out that easy lil bro
@@galenmarek8287Yeah, no.. there’s a huge difference between (R) and (D) today. If you can’t see that after the last ~8 years? No telescope is going to help you. The “bOtH pArTiEs BaD!” fake centrist bs helps no one and accomplishes nothing. One party believes in science, one does not. One party is vehemently trying to take basic human rights away from women, the other one fights for it. One party is filled with anti-vax, Christian nationalist, bigots.. the other is not. One repeatedly gives the ultra-wealthy tax breaks while actively working to make the lives of working class people worse, the other is not. So stop with this nonsense.
Call... don't write. I wrote, got a bs email response by someone other than who I enrolled, using his name. Clueless of the response and instead stress persuading me into my political vote. The emails are just BS staff replies, they aren't tracked. The calls are tracked
@@SMthegamer1 Ignoring the fact that they are funding a mass slaughter in Gaza I agree with you. But that isn't because they aren't sending a ton of money, it is because they are wasting insane amounts of money on the defense budget They are goings to fucken send 60 billion dollars to Ukraine, that's nearly 40% more than the whole NIH budget and about 3 times NASA's budget. Just to be clear, I support Ukrainians defending their land. But it is insane to spend all of this money on a war a world away from your nation while you are defunding your health institute
Since when is Congress the same as society? Imagine if everyone watching this video could choose what their tax money went towards. Then we could see what society would do.
Public funding of research should be one of the places where governments should never cut costs among health care, culture and education, and the USA is behind the rest of the world on all these policies...
The biggest problem that needs solving first is your antiquated election system, which the US inherited from the English and unfortunately the English were already antiquated compared to the rest of Europe then. Y'all didn't have trouble ditching the tea in favour of coffee, so surely you don't need to remain clingy to the two party system either.;) Having a true multiparty coalition system, with at least 5 parties and a dozen or so candidates, would depolarise politics so much and be a much better representation. So much more common sense would have a chance to prevail over two party bickering. It's ridiculous that currently two individuals essentially pretend to represent all the opinions of 341 million people. They absolutely can't and everything turns into a pissing contest into who can one up the only other competition. Currently for instance, based on what I've heard, most Americans don't actually want either Trump or Biden again. The ones that do vote, in large part do so only because they really don't want the other guy. Strategic voting does exist in multi party coalition systems, but it gets watered down immensely. The same with populist voting. A populist can win, but he might not succeed in forming a majority coalition or any at all. Even when they do, they have other parties demands to take into account. Everything becomes a compromise of some sort, which is what you want in a society of millions of different people trying to live together. Instead of a ruling party steamrolling in one direction until the other guy gets a run and blocks everything and goes in the opposite direction. It's such a toxic wasteful system that ignores every position that isn't in one of two extremes. You'll also save billions in ridiculous campaign spending that's mostly spent on throwing mud to the other guy. You can't be quite as childish when there's a dozen other real choices that potentially present themselves better and less annoying. Gerrymandering dissappears too, with so many more choices such polarisation by district can simply not exist. It will ofc be a hugely complicated thing to change, there are several mechanisms in effect currently that make it very resistant to change. But I do advise any American that wants to have their voice heard and represented, to look into those blocks and work together with others to develop ways to overcome them. Because a representative democracy for 341 million people with only two real options, isn't much of a representation nor much of a democracy. It's your country, you deserve better, make it happen.😊
@@kirleyq1394 We have several powerful countries that would love to kill us and our allies. Space is not trying to kill us Also, while space is fascinating it's not a particularly useful line of study unless we actually plan on colonizing. Knowing there's a giant black hole 200,000 light years away doesn't actually provide any practical benefit or advancement to humanity
@@captainuseless2120More than that, Social Security and Medicare together are closer to 70% of the budget, and there's other programs too. I would venture to guess that 70-80% of the budget is some form of welfare spending
@@captainuseless2120 I'm not sure that's a good idea, especially since quality of life and human welfare is one of the U.S.'s best selling points. Though they should be focusing on their own people instead of importing immigrants for welfare.
No, it all goes to the rich. Only a small percentage of it goes to the politicians through the back door. But enough to keep them the puppets of the rich. Puppets with the you know what of the rich up their back doors.
@@lebrewski3103why do you think i said we? For one taxation is theft if we ALL banned together and stopped payin bs taxes we'd get somewhere. Just goin thru our daily motions of being money graped politicians are gonna keep taking.
??? AMERICANS DON'T REALISE THAT A WORLD WHERE RUSIA AND CHINA GET THE HEGEMONY AND A WORLD WHERE USA IS OUT OF NATO (WITH NO ALLIES) THE USA WILL DISAPPEAR IN QUESTION OF WEEKS, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE USA... BUT KEEP TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES...
RUSSIA IS MANAGING TO CHANGE THE WORLD ORDER WITH THE WAR OF UKRAINE, AND CONVINCING THE USA TO GET OUT OF NATO, AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A TELESCOPE???... AMERICANS DON'T REALISE THAT A WORLD WHERE RUSIA AND CHINA GET THE HEGEMONY AND A WORLD WHERE USA IS OUT OF NATO (WITH NO ALLIES) THE USA WILL DISAPPEAR IN QUESTION OF WEEKS, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE USA... BUT KEEP TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES...
@@ursafan40 "Illegal" immigrants are the backbone of the agricultural economy. They're why you have food on your plate. They also handle extremely toxic chemicals and are constantly ill. The agricultural sector needs to spend less on dangerous pesticides, and more on their paychecks. And in that event, maybe the costs to the Healthcare industry might go down. Don't be needlessly cruel and misanthropic, be reasonable. (Also, an fyi: drug cartels use white kids to smuggle usually. They get less attention from border patrol.) Edit: also, imagine comparing immigrants to war profiteers lmao.
UPDATE: Chandra X-Ray Center has just been notified that NASA is making funding available to pay staff salaries until September 2025. That’s a huge win for the campaign. If you watched, shared, or commented, thank you for your part in helping #SaveChandra!
Hi!
Great news. Bdw Chandra means Moon in Sanskrit/Hindi , but this one was named after a renowned Indian-American nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
OMG I'M SO GLAD
I watched this short and personally called my slave Bi-den to save Chandra.
@@candidNitzArreee chandu meyaa kesay ho
I used to work in a Congressional staff office. Make sure to CALL your member of Congress. The call tally sheets are delivered straight from the interns answering the phones to your representative. Emails are handled purely by staff.
The comments complaining have hundreds of likes.
This comment that actually tells you the correct way to take action and do something about the issue only has 20
Shows you where everyone’s head is at in society
@@CadaverCo Ikr? I hit the like instantly on this one.
C'mon guys, we need to bump this comment, it's actually the answer to the issue!!!!
So, you're recommending a bunch of millennials to pick up the phone, call somebody - THAT THEY DON'T KNOW - and speak to them?
I like your optimism 😂
@@craigape this comment is the epitome of irony. You sound like the least informed about the situation. Go do some reading instead of speaking out of your ass.
What's the opposite of progress?
_Congress!_
same here in india 😂
edit: can you all stop replying to me please? its been months
Regress
Underrated
To be fair, the US doesn't even have the money for any of the top 5 most expensive programs, that being medicare, medicaid, nuclear weapons, income security programs, and social security. Yes that is correct, the military doesn't make the top 5. Roughly 60% of the 'defense' budget is nukes.
They put the CON in Congress
Hundreds of billions for the military but can’t even spare a few ten million for a one-of-a-kind telescope.
Congress can't approve funding for military aid for Ukraine. I mean, do you feel like they know what they are doing there?
Tbf, i feel like the us budget should go to soooo many things (schools, hospitals, social programs, public transit,...) but everything is better then the money wasted on the military.
And it's double wasted as most money doesn't even fund the military, but just goes to make few dudes even richer
The US has a spending problem in and outside the military. We could save millions without military price gouging but we also need to focus on the inefficient spending we do in other sectors. Spending more on healthcare than other countries but not having access to affordable healthcare is a crime. The US has the money it just needs to not waste it
@@no_name4796yep, corporate military
Because it doesn't lead to donation.
“congress is about to make a HUGE mistake”
“…alright you’re gonna have to narrow that down”
This should be top comment. 😅
yeah well they haven't heard my wild ideas they should really just give up honestly the nazis
Comparing it to the cost of a military jet just really shows where all that money goes... instead of towards science.
All that money? Into those rich guys' pockets, doubt it even goes to military
The military is science you doorknob. You know how many inventions came from the military?
How many people leaving comments like this also vote for politicians who wasted hundreds of billions on Ukraine?
@@zwan1886 Ты такой старательный маленький тролль, папочка Путин наверное гордится.
You will never win.@@positronalpha
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake."
What's new?
"In space."
NO!
This is exactly how I reacted.
Congress: Not my Problem, i only care about my pocket
Unironically, my exact second to second reaction
Read that with soldiers voice 🤣🤣🤣
You must be new to this planet. It’s the government’s job to make mistakes and our job to pay for it.
my grandpa worked on the mirrors for chandra and hubble with ball back in the day!! i’m so proud of him and he loves to tell his engineering stories!! i hope they can find the funding for many more years
OMG THAT'S AWESOME!!!
in Danbury ?
Yeah, I'd tell anybody that would listen about that. That's so awesome!
If they ended Welfare for foreigners we could afford Universal Healthcare.
Extinction event? BS. Why USA tax prayers are expected to the bill to save the entire world?
Only $64M. Australia could easily pick up that bill, right?
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake" is an evergreen phrase.
Its more a fact of life 😂😂😂
democracy is as stupid as an appeal to popularity
Congress's very first mistake was recognizing Ronald Reagan as president.
The GOP side of the Congress is and has been a HUGE Mistake for the Country.
It’s better to ask not what mistakes Congress will make, but what they’ll do that wasn’t a mistake
Money for bombs, but not for healthcare.
Money for guns, but not for infrastructure.
Money for war, but not for scientific study.
America, are you great yet?
Military spending is where most scientific development comes from
@@robertm3329but not alone. You first have to have a framework to explore to research it inside military
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 The overwhelming majority of the technology we enjoy today is hand-me-down technology from military research labs, does the internet ring a bell? Military science is about 15 to 30 years ahead of civilian science and will continue to be the place where most technical advancements are handed down via patent sales.
@@jakubrejzekjunior7349 Generally it works the opposite way, military research discovers principle and application, that trickles down into civilian application. Things like rocketry and digital electronics are good examples.
@@robertm3329 the Internet is a child of the military. I agree that contractors are bleeding us dry and there is DEFINITELY corruption but we're funding most of NATO so we've put ourselves in a position that we can't get out of
I’d be more shocked if Congress did something right.
Well, if Congress did something right. It wont make news
@@navyseal1689Well can’t stroke congress dick for doing something right, that’s literally bare minimum 🤪
The only bipartisan agreement in congress is that social media is bad for children and yet they haven’t done anything about it
If you count Florida State Congress they made it law that if you touch a kid under 12 they can give you the big sleep
West Virginia has passed a law bumping their minimum marriage age to 18.
@@NickCamokidVisneskigood because a lot of red states were trying to bring back child marriages.
"That's why it's called a NDE and not death" 😀
Yes, Libby is great! She is the reason I found your channel - she mentioned you both a few readings ago. So glad she did, absolutely loving you both, thank you 💖
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake" from what i've heard that's an average day in america
I wonder who's getting a pay raise..
That's an average day in every county, get off your high horse
@@crysteldogg8936 He's not wrong.
Since repugs are offering no legislation and blocking everything else, don't worry about Chandra... worry about EVERYTHING not getting funded... cancer research, infrastructure repair, supporting our allies, veterans healthcare... by all means let's bitch and moan about 0.01% of people affected by transgender issues. Pffft
Pretty much
Congress is where the people that can't balance the budget, somehow become millionaires.
"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” -- Harry Truman.
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Oh, they can balance it. There's just more money in mishandling it, because idiots do a lot of voting.
@@siler7omg, this is the best quote and it is true .. they gain way more from mishandling stuff than doing it properly..
Russian bot
A single f-16 for a yearly funding budget is crazy low for congress
You misunderstood. NASA gets $58 million per day. The cost to keep Chandra is the price of an f16
@@mohnjarx7801yet still they only focus on military
Your listening comprehension is off.
They send 3.8 billion dollars to fund Israel military for war yet can’t even spare 68 million dollars for science 🤦♀️
Original NASA wasn't really about space travel as much as intercontinental missiles in the first place. Most nasa invented items eventually go to the military. Nasa and the military is linked way more than people even realize. Everything from satellites to Velcro.
Knowledge is wonderful.! Valuable for development.
What is the value of a human life?
I want to see what's out there as much as anyone call me and my imagination explodes! If money spent to progress what is used to house and feed and a house feed, how much more valuable does that we have all the time in an eternity to progress.
It's only selfish to put these interests in front of our fellow human beings
to put into perspective, Chandra costs about as much as a single F16.
not to mention the US has over 900 of them.
im pretty sure they can afford one more.
Source buddy
Chandra cost 1.65 billion, an f16 costs about 70 million. So for the price of 20 ish f-16s the US could build another one. You can have FREEDOM or you can have scientific research. Your leaders chose Freedom and the capitalist benefits that come with it. Give it a few hundred years and it will trickle down.
We can’t afford food right now f you’re space adventure till we can live
@@Itneverwas.can’t afford food but can afford another F16?
@@lordlousy Gottem
I can't believe an F-16 costs the same as the entire budget for this operation.
for a year*
but yea.
Which is more significant in value to not the citizens but the US gov.?
Nasa needs to bring back the old, after placing the new in orbit. Parts have value
Penn and Teller think Nasa had gone bigger and lazier compared to the 60's. DEI hires make matters worse.
@@alkeryn1700if you want to compare apple to apples, try to find the operational costs for F-16, and it looks this even worse. The operational cost of Chandra is even lower than the F-16.
It really is absurd to throw away an investment like ..A SATELLITE.
Zelensky needs more money to move the frontline 1mm farther.
Lol they are throwing away a whole country and you think they are worried about a space satellite 😂😂
@@wenterinfaer1656found the Russian
@@7h3_man ironically I was born in Ukraine.
If they are doing so, then it is because something is detectable by x-ray that they do not want known. Agenda is the driving factor here.
I temporarily worked with a project hosted by the chandra micro-observatory to take the pictures they crafted and colorize or otherwise photoshop the pictures to get more kids interested in space. Very cool and fulfilling work, i hope they keep it open or replace the telescope! Fantastic source material to work with!
The fact we have to ask, beg, or expect anything constructive involving congress is already an issue in and of itself. The fact they get paid at all or have any kind of merit is a joke.
preach brother lmao
They don’t give a damn about us in the least. They’ll all be dead of old age before the environment is damaged beyond repair or before the social security runs out. So they still get to run the country how they like it because they know they’ll be long gone before it even matters. The average age of a citizen in the U.S is 38.9 years old, it’s 58.4 for congress and 64.3 for Senators.
Bro that is what democracy is and it's way better than the alternatives😂
@ryboodle America a democracy, really?
Tell me you dont work and receive money from the gov, without telling me....@@ryboodle
Just tell the Congressmen that NASA found oil on a nearby exoplanet, and the space budget will skyrocket, trust me
Corrupt problems require corrupt solutions
why do you think they fund war lol why go to space when you can steal it abroad
Ofc
NASA would reveal that you are lying
Plenty of "fossil fuels" on Saturn's moon Titan
Take it out of their salaries. They’re skimming millions off our tax dollars on the side anyway.
lol, Nancy’s insider trading could pay for it a few times over.
lol, Nancy’s insider trading could pay for it a few times over.
*trillions
Don't be roped in. Bad spending doesn't justify good spending. Our government debt is *our* problem.
No, nothing spent at federal level comes from your taxes. Read "Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton.
You can’t say the truth out loud man! That’s how people end up Epstein’d.
Unfortunately the Compton satellite shot down the other observation satellites when it passed them by
Unfortunately for humanity knowledge is left at the whim of ignorance of politics.
Well thats how they always control the Population
I mean think about north korea
Well that isn't true, because other Countries have space programmes too.
And politicians too @@trudilm3864
@@trudilm3864other countries also have bad politicians.
@@trudilm3864yes they do for example india. You know what politicians did here? Cut the funding to the space programme. Last year was when the lunar landing took place, the same year (long before the mission) the current party in power cut the space programmes funding. And when the landing happened successfully, didn't wait a second plastering their own faces (not the faces of the scientists who worked on the mission) on posters advertising the success of the Indian space programme
Thank you for this! I have been working with Chandra data for several years now, including on some of the galaxies you showed. The science I, and many others currently do is not possible without Chandra. The current defunding of Chandra for no discernible reason is already a huge detriment to the scientific community, and our ability to investigate the most energetic events in the universe. And this is only going to get worse if Congress continues defunding it without considering any replacement.
God bless you, you are part of history🌌
"Chandra" the name is the reason. They will replace it with "luna".
I used to want to work for nasa but that dream died when I realized it was a part of government bureaucracy that’s subject to stupid decisions
Edit this isn’t attacking anyone I just don’t like that the people in charge don’t fund the one thing their department is dedicated to
So people's money should be stolen from them in order to give you a toy you like to work with? Hell no. Go get a real job and stop defending government overreach.
Is there any practical application derived of that field that could be leveraged?
Congress: "What's the role of an X ray space telescope in a WW3?" 💀💀💀💀💀💀
To see the bones of the enemy duh
They don't shoot x-rays, fml😂
Observing nuclear flashes!
the cold war 2
You'll find out once we start fighting over the moons resources.
If we spent the $$$ on space that we do on bullets, we'd all be living that Star Trek life of plenty for all !
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake", could have been the entire message and applicable to pretty much everything they're doing these days.
And what are we to do about it?
@@thebitlotWhen have the slaves ever been allowed to "do something about it"?
@@happyvapor4670 Do you want a list of slave rebellions and revolutions throughout the history of time or was that a rhetorical question?
Just tell them its a weapon of war the budget will sky rocket
literally
It searches for oil.
Well technically can be considered a surveillance equipment in space. For any gamma ray event that can destroy all spaces equipment and even treating life existance on this planet. From super novas or even a Avance civilization. Activity. In space.
Or drop welfare? Food stamps? Get Americans working again. Military is just as important as space stop being delusional
absolutely they will go haywire 😂
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake."
My man, Congress itself is a huge mistake.
Better alternative?
@classicalAnime The only two options I see are to clear house completely (as in to not leave even a single incumbent, even in the Supreme Court) or to hit the reset button and perhaps try a different system.
@@lunavarion all I will say is that the founders, particularly Madison (who drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), were extremely careful students of history, and were quite well aware about the consequences of hastily overthrowing government. Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence said: (revolution) shall not be done for “light and transient causes”. And I’m sure everyone here wants to jump right away and say our current situation meets that threshold. And to that I say, study history.
@@lunavarion Are you advocating for totalitarianism or something like that?
@geo5873 Definitely not. Republics are nice on paper. In practice, though, they always seem like the ideal platform for corrupt, power-hungry individuals to claim power and become totalitarian. For examples, look at Rome and the current, American government.
Ah, the beloved spinoff of "Congress Is About to Make a Huge Mistake"... "Congress Is About to Make a Huge Mistake IN SPACE!!!"
Honestly, the number of sequels and spin-offs this IP has gotten is starting to make me think they've run out of good ideas
9 out of 10 peopling complaining about tax dollars going to the military in this comment section support more funding for ukraine
@@cagneybillingsley2165
Do they? Really ??? That sucks
@anotherfacelessname9270 well the whole premise is not having good ideas and I don't think they'll ever run out of ways to not have good ideas
@@cagneybillingsley2165 Yeah, because Ukraine needs it.
"War makes money, space telescopes don't."
-Congress, probably
probably most of them think like this. what scientist found in space they always make some kind of theory breakthrough in PAPER while war's need more weapon more bullet more supplier more buyer and that bring more money
War makes technological innovations as well. Plus there are the space telescopes we don’t know about because they are still classified
@@CaseyTheAlpha i think i heard somewhere that said scope was originally came from a far past researcher who trying to see the sky from a tower
@@CaseyTheAlpha Those technological innovations are not at all useful to anyone not in the military. I would be perfectly happy if there was never again military technological advancement
@@mr.dirtydannnnn Then log off the internet. Never use super glue. You like the radio and all the various things powered by radio waves? Gone like the wind with your cellphones, gps, rc cars, television, hell even wireless clocks and garage door openers.
Modern day airplanes use a jet engine, this engine was created by Nazis. I mean the list can go on forever. Technological innovations are sparked by wars. Not just Military tech, all tech.
We should cut the budget for congress by 40%.
No more seat warmers. No paid expenses. No jets. No nothing 😂
🎯
Or more effectively, outlaw briber-- I mean lobbying 😝
That's a good way of making certain that only the wealthy can ever hold a position of power in the government. The wealthy don't need a pay check. The ones who are like you and I do.
Make it so they can't invest in the market.
They saw this comment and gave themselves pay raises
The fact that you think they actually follow a budget is the problem. Look at their bank accounts. Why is mine smaller while people like aoc are magically worth 20 mil at least.
Chandra telescope. For Space Astranomy. Uptodate one for 2025 budget to get approval. Thank you . Arizona Congressman. Leadership awareness. Thank you . USA 🇺🇸 Arizona peace and joyful blessings.
The biggest mistake Congress has made was allowing a congress member who thinks the moon is made out of gas
Not gas, plasma
Ya, it's plasma. And we never left the earths atmosphere. It's all fake. They are stealing money from everyone.
The members are elected by people and not Congress.
They've spent TRILLIONS on trying to find "Life" on the moon since 1969.
Never once staying 24 hours there.
Next trip will be September 2025 at the cost of $4.1 BILLION.
N.A.S.A.
Numbskulls
Astronomical
Spending
Allowance
@@TheNester.You must be one of those people who think the moon landings were fake.
It has always upset me how little money goes into our space program. And look how much we can do with it already. They could double the budget and Congress wouldn't even feel it, it's one of our smaller expenses in the annual budget. It would have greta positive affects on all of science.
And on military aswell, im surpised that country so focused on military doesnt take space seriously.
@@SaltywengiellIt will once we get into a conflict with another space capable country, just not the telescopes though
@@SaltywengiellWe spend over 50% of our budget on the massive amount of corruption that is social entitlements.
Social Security, which Congress steals from, welfare, which continues to perpetuate the cycle of poverty in communities, Medicare and Medicaid which abused by doctors, medical companies to no end and is extremely inefficient.
Don’t get me wrong, military spending is a problem too, but it’s much much smaller in comparison to our other problems.
@@pikeman6774 I never said its a problem, i just think spending a fraction more on space would improve military capabilities aswell.
@@Saltywengiell Probably true.
If not improve our resource capacity, if we could mine asteroids.
This man put “extinction level event” as the cover photo and knew exactly what he was doing
this was what i was looking for - it's too bad Veritasium is one of those guys now...
@@yomommashaus Yeah actually really disappointing. And I'm like 90% sure the James Webb Telescope captures X-Rays..
@@yomommashaus It's called an attention grabbing title and thumbnail, TH-camrs need to make money too.
I've just said the same,this platform is just lies
@averagemug it's called misinformation or LYING.
1. Prolonging the Operational Life of Chandra: Engineering and Mission Management
1.1. Orbital Optimization and Fuel Efficiency
Dynamic Orbit Maintenance:
Use multi-variable optimization algorithms to calculate propellant-efficient orbital adjustments.
Exploit Earth’s albedo effect and gravitational perturbations for passive trajectory corrections.
Adapt to a low-energy transfer window system to prioritize maneuvers that minimize fuel usage.
Solar Radiation and Atmospheric Drag Utilization:
Leverage solar radiation pressure torques for micro-adjustments to orbital alignment.
Conduct simulations to determine the upper thresholds of drag compensation at apogee points.
Hybrid Orbital Stabilization:
Combine minimal propellant burns with reaction wheel momentum dumping to maintain operational altitude.
1.2. Gyroscope and Momentum System Management
Gimbal Realignment for Reduced Wear:
Implement advanced algorithms for gimbal redistribution to balance rotational stress on gyroscopes.
Use vibration-smoothing models to dampen rotational oscillations from high-inertia observations.
Kalman Filter Optimization:
Develop Kalman-filter-based orientation prediction systems to stabilize pointing with degraded gyroscope accuracy.
Virtual Gyroscope Techniques:
Integrate astrometric triangulation from distant guide stars to simulate gyroscope input for fine-tuned stabilization.
1.3. Instrument Maintenance and Advanced Calibration
CCD Aging Mitigation:
Refine thermal cycling protocols to limit dark current accumulation in the ACIS (Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer).
Deploy pixel-by-pixel statistical noise removal software to counteract quantum efficiency loss.
High-Resolution Camera (HRC) Optimization:
Reconfigure sensor modes to shift observational priority to low-usage zones of the detector array.
Real-Time Adaptive Calibration:
Introduce onboard processing pipelines capable of real-time correction for detector degradation.
1.4. Cost Mitigation and Operational Budgeting
Multi-Nation Cooperative Funding:
Engage ESA, JAXA, and CNSA in resource-sharing agreements for extended operational time.
Propose observation-time exchanges with high-priority scientific projects to secure supplementary funding.
Commercial Partnerships:
Leverage collaborations with private aerospace companies like Blue Origin or SpaceX for extended maintenance logistics.
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2. Leveraging Existing Observatories for a Coordinated Framework
2.1. Space-Based X-Ray Observatories
XMM-Newton:
Utilize its EPIC MOS and PN detectors for wide-field surveys, complemented by Chandra’s high-resolution targeting.
Integrate RGS (Reflection Grating Spectrometer) data for detailed spectral line analysis in galactic winds and cooling flows.
NuSTAR:
Focus on cross-calibration with Chandra for hard X-ray observations of pulsars, magnetars, and ultraluminous X-ray sources.
Pair soft-band Chandra data with NuSTAR’s hard-band coverage to reconstruct broadband emission profiles.
E-ROSITA:
Exploit its all-sky survey capacity for identifying large-scale filamentary structures in the cosmic web.
Target high-flux regions detected by eROSITA with Chandra for precise follow-up imaging.
2.2. Terrestrial Observatories
Radio (SKA, VLA):
Synchronize with radio observatories to map jet structures in AGN and their synchrotron counterparts.
Use spectral indices from radio emissions to predict X-ray luminosity in relativistic sources.
Optical and Infrared (JWST, Subaru, VLT):
Deploy mid-IR and NIR data from JWST to locate heavily obscured X-ray sources in star-forming galaxies.
Cross-correlate optical spectra from Subaru with X-ray ionization models.
2.3. Multimodal Synergies
LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave Events:
Match gravitational wave detections with Chandra observations to study post-merger kilonovae and fallback accretion.
Gamma-Ray Transients:
Pair high-energy gamma-ray burst data from Fermi-LAT or Swift with Chandra’s lower-energy X-ray tail emissions.
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3. Advanced Computational Solutions for Post-Chandra Science
3.1. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
GAN-Based Image Reconstruction:
Use generative adversarial networks to synthetically enhance resolution in noisy or partially degraded images.
Unsupervised Learning for Transients:
Develop anomaly detection algorithms to identify rare transients in archival data.
Neural Networks for Data Recovery:
Train multi-layer perceptrons to interpolate missing data in incomplete X-ray spectra.
3.2. Archival Data Utilization
Stacked Spectral Analysis:
Combine multiple epochs of archival observations to amplify signal-to-noise ratios for faint sources.
Historical Reprocessing:
Revisit Chandra’s past surveys with modern statistical tools, extracting latent data from previously unprocessable datasets.
3.3. Theoretical Modeling and Simulation
High-Fidelity Plasma Simulations:
Model shock fronts in supernova remnants using relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD).
Cosmic Structure Evolution:
Simulate gas dynamics in galaxy clusters to predict X-ray observables based on gravitational potential wells.
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4. Fast-Tracking Successor Missions: Lynx and Compact Satellites
4.1. Lynx X-Ray Observatory
Mirror Assembly Advances:
Deploy adjustable micro-shell optics for dynamic focusing.
Expand focal plane coverage by 100× compared to Chandra.
High-Resolution Microcalorimeters:
Equip Lynx with ultra-sensitive TES (Transition-Edge Sensor) arrays for sub-eV spectral resolution.
Accelerated Deployment Timelines:
Utilize modular spacecraft construction to reduce pre-launch integration time.
4.2. Rapidly Deployable CubeSats
Dedicated Missions:
Launch CubeSats tailored for transient monitoring, such as GRBs or TDEs.
Interconnected Networks:
Establish constellations of small satellites for continuous sky coverage and real-time transient triangulation.
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5. Extrapolated Multi-Wavelength Strategies
5.1. Optical/X-Ray Correlations
Use scaling relationships between Hα luminosity and soft X-ray flux to estimate gas heating in galaxy clusters.
5.2. Synchrotron Emission Models
Trace X-ray counterparts from radio synchrotron jets using combined SKA and ALMA datasets.
5.3. Polarimetric Studies
Deploy high-precision polarimetric analysis to infer X-ray scattering properties.
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6. Legacy Science and Strategic Observational Priorities
6.1. Key Science Drivers
Dark Matter Mapping:
Use X-ray lensing to constrain dark matter subhalo distributions.
Compact Object Physics:
Study spin evolution in black holes via spectral timing analysis.
6.2. Long-Term Survey Design
Expand Chandra Deep Field programs to unprecedented depths for extragalactic studies.
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My dad just got fired because this project isn't going through. He is one of the only people at the company that knows this technology really well and worked on the original one as well as the other ones.
Thank you Congress for the loss of thousands of jobs for no reason. Keep spending money on war and giving money to other countries, but can't do a simple project like this.
Sorry for your dad.
War makes congress people money, and yeah, America needs all kinds of funding, our roads, bridges, railroads are all falling apart all across the country- I just travelled across the United States and it’s a mess - less than 10% of that ‘$1 trillion infrastructure bill’ went to transportation- look into where the rest of it went - and I feel like a criminal flying between our own cities, TSA needs to transfer all that equipment to the borders-
@@jeremey2072 'war makes money'? Wtf the us is one of the richest countries in the world. War doesn't make the state richer. It makes some individuals richer who won't be paying for your roads, bridges or whatever. If they wanted to, they would have repaired them years ago.
Sorry for your dad, I guess ur government prefers sending money overseas to tyrannical governments instead of helping their citizens.
@@SY-vj8tbit can always be richer
We could save billions if congress would stop letting contractors underbid and over charge
contracting at all in government is the worst case scenario.
more than that to be honest. maybe not in one year, but it adds up.
Good Procurement is important
And stop sending money to Ukraine and Isreal
Contracting is important as it allows for more competition, ensuring that we end up with the best available tech for defense. However we could cut down on a few things, I’m not sure what, but cutting politicians’ salaries is definitely on the top of my list
NASA's yearly budget isn't even 3% of the US military budget each year, yet a lot of people still complain that space study is too much.
3% is huge! I’ll gladly take 3% of my federal taxes back.
@@benvoiles9166 Do you not see the flaw in the US military having so much funding
The issue is that people don't realize that it fuels advancement in technology that benefits their everyday lives once it is invented for space travel
@@kiwenmanisuno The US military is also where most of the research advances are made.
@@jackmccool9911 it literally isn't but ok
Maximizing Impact with Strategic Focus
In the face of limited resources, prioritization is key. Chandra’s remaining operational time and future instruments should focus on:
Legacy Science: Long-term projects like AGN evolution, dark matter in galaxy clusters, and supernova remnants.
High-Risk, High-Reward Targets: Rare transients like tidal disruption events or neutron star mergers.
It's our tax dollars, screw you Congress!
And I don't want it spent on a stupid telescope.
@@Red-Check-Mark💀
@@Red-Check-Markbegone
Just imagine if there was a World nation without need for military....uffff the amount of extra money we would have for science, technology and development😮😮😮😢...
@@Red-Check-Mark and youre too simple minded to understand the implications of the "stupid telescope".
Please dont vote :)
Not only save Chandra but UPGRADE Chandra!
How? It's in a very distant orbit so you can't just send someone out there with a wrench.
@@jeremytheimer7443 Send a mission to upgrade Chandra.
Its way much easier replace it than an upgrade
@@virmirfan lol it’s so far out I don’t think a human could make it
@@virmirfan both are great sounding adventures.
To put these prices in perspective. If what the US spends annually in its military were $100, this telescope maintenance price would be 1 cent or even less.
That still doesn't mean it's worth funding it cuz that means turning down other things for funding so is viewing events that occurred thousands of years ago really all that beneficial at this point
How about we get rid of this telescope AND the new jet? Not worth it.
@@rickwar0How about we stop special treatment for illegals. Do you know how expensive that treatment is? A wall would be a fraction of the cost of paying for the illegals special treatment the Biden/Harris administration has been giving to illegals per year.
@@rickwar0get rid of 2 jets and keep the telescope. Save the same amount of money, keep the one of a kind, state of the art scientific instruments and tools. Miss out on one or two mass produced military industrial complex toys.
They’ll have dozens of better jets rolling off the factory production lines in a couple years.
If a particular research or study gets dropped it very very rarely gets picked back up.
@@JohnnyDanger0uswhat else outside of earth do you suggest we observe and study instead? Every long range event that is observed happened in the past, that doesn’t mean they’re not worth knowing about or studying.
Eventually knowing enough about past events gives us information to model or predict future events. It’s not about having your head up in the clouds and commenting on ancient events far away. It’s about understanding the way the universe continues to work and function in the present.
We all got to go sometime and when the all mighty GOD says it’s time it’s time!
Cut Congressional budget instead!!
Cut DOJ, which isn't in the Constitution anywhere.
I would rather save the telescope, which does more important work. Congress IS a huge mistake. Send most of SCOTUS, their dear leader, and the GOP into the nearest black hole instead of allowing them to continually warp our time, space, and reality here.
Their budget is tiny compared to what nasa gets. You people act congressmen are being paid millions of dollars. They make like around $150k a year.
@@LRRPFco52 I am not from usa, but if I am correct you mean the Department of justice right? If so then I am confused cause I thought yours feds were really good at what they did.
@@fly8668They are. A certain political party is involved in crimes and that is why they want the DOJ disbanded.
That's $0.2 from every US citizen.
which is a tiny percentage of all the hundreds of tax dollars payed by Americans every year, but hey guess it's better spent increasing the salaries of congress ppl
@@sharkace1740With the Pelosi return on investments they should be pretty close to funding it themselves, right?
Thats still tax money that’s not going to benefit those who are paying for it. The Cold War over, no more need for national projects to demonstrate America capable outside of shooting wars. Go back to how they use to be funded by either private funding or partnerships with business…
Your math is an order of magnitude and then some off the mark.
Are you confusing total population with number of citizens?
The stimulus checks was 60,000 per citizen and we ended up with what. 10% of it? The rest laundered squandered and stolen.
Carl Sagan wrote about this exact problem in Cosmos.
It's sad to see that Congress still has not changed.
"In the last quarter of 1979, the program cost of the U.S. F/A-18 aircraft increased by $5.1 billion, and the F-16 by $3.4 billion. Since their inceptions, significantly less has been spent on the unmanned planetary programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union than has been wasted shamefully - for example, between 1970 and 1975, in the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, an application of national policy that cost $7 billion. The total cost of a mission such as Viking to Mars, or Voyager to the outer solar system, is less than that of the 1979-80 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Through technical employment and the stimulation of high technology, money spent on space exploration has an economic multiplier effect."
From the final chapter of Cosmos.
@@nitish2049that hurts my soul
Government by lawyers has been a disaster for the human race.
No they're far worse now.
Isn't Sagan in the fire mentioned in Luke 16?
We should keep an eye on as much as possible out there. Who knows what all may exist, and if someone or something shows up it would definitely be better to know ahead of time.
Exactly what I'm saying cause it's pretty ignorant to assume we're alone in this universe
I rather my taxes go to that than for wars we shouldn't be involved in. 100 percent.
One is profitable, other isn't
@@vanjamenadzerwhich is which? Bc science is very profitable
@@vanjamenadzer they're both for profit, and both for humanity. The space race resulted with lots good byproduct projects have made money, eg. Corelle dishes. Some wars are for-profit eg. Iraq, some wars are for survival, eg. Ukraine. I guess it all depends on which end of the gun you were on. Cheers!
AIPAC be like
@@The-Droll-and-LazyJoker Unfortunately, not entirely true. Space projects is more akin to an investment, and the advancements that come from it doesn't always translate into profit, though it is academically very important.
War on the other hand... That's _immediately_ profitable. They just need to wave a tiny American flag and stir up some right-wing patriotism, and everybody goes nuts and never question why they're going to war.
We could get the money to save Chandra if we cut the salary of everyone in Congress by 100k. Then they would still make 79k, plus they could continue to do their insider trading for millions.
You could do it even without cutting salaries. The Federal Government is a currency issuer, not a currency user. They can just print the money.
@@Skeletron1000 that would cause a lot of inflation though
edit: just cut the congress salaries lmao i meant we don't need to print extra money
@@hybbfr727 don't worry about inflation
Your assets will go up and balance out the inflation
😂
Congress could stop giving money to illegal aliens. That would pay for the telescope too. Or is that not "nice"?
Cut a single time for 100k to each, and then treat them as pocket change for everything science related they cut investment?
Count me in
To them if it’s not well known it’s not worth it
We have no need to fret. We are to live for Christ ❤✝️
John 3:16-18 ESV
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. [18] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
❤✝️
They’re done looking for planets that have oil but need democracy
They're still stuck on that object permanence logic from infancy
It’s not
@@GogglesOstrichWho Asked?
What does astronomy do for us if a meteor is going to hit we're all going to die😂😂😂.
Thanks for letting us know how STUPID our congress is so we can do something. 👍🏽❤️
Congress is stupid
Almost as stupid as believing in Black Holes.
Y'all remember ASB club from school, ran by those super cool kids that had no clue about anything at all? Yep, that's congress pretty much
Liberals aren't very smart.
They prefer wasting money on migrants & releasing criminals from prison.
Most politicians are stupid so doesn’t surprise me
Congress: "$68,000,000? For a telescope? That's too much!"
Also Congress: "$2,000,000,000,000? For some fighter jets? Don't mind if I do 🤑💸💵💰"
Worst thing is that the fighter jets cost about half of they're actual budget to build, the rest is profit for private afiliated companys...
Americans will continue to get milked by their government clean
@@jamess4444 Lockheed I believe is their main source right
Well those jets are the reason no one would dare to even think about attacking your country. 😊
@@dimitritsetezoh2784this guy gets it
US Congress making mistakes in space is the new height bro 💀💀💀
When previously, we thought the sky was the limit 💀
It is the limit... operation fish bowl!
Complain about it then. But nothing will change
@Niilo2.2interestingly, your comment has the same amount of words from before the dot to after it
Dont forget ,its NOT only TWO deferents TIMES -here its,deferents- ALL parameters
The Chandra is named after Nobel prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, and it was launched on July 23, 1999.
Chandra in Sanskrit means the moon, I don't know if that's relevant or not
@@Desperateashellyes it can be relevant
Nobody asked
@@SiNiC875right, shut up mate
@@SiNiC875but it’s a cool and related fact
The fact that you can compare it to A SINGLE f16 is just absurd. The fact that nasa is getting so little but doing so much. Nasa deserve more
Enter India, making do with the bare minimum 💀
Enter India, making do with the bare minimum💀
Nasa is not getting so little bro see isro budget and see its achievements
GOP hates science and loves the 1%.
No, going to the moon is not comparable to protecting vital supply chains for example. There is no collapse of livelihood if Chandra is destroyed tomorrow. Kids will go to school, there will be no famine, no 1930-style depression, no millions of dead. If China invade Taiwan because they know the USA don't have military planes or the willing to intervene guess what is going to happen? The problem with the military is the scams like the F-15EX costing 80 million dollars, but for people even if they don't have the brains to know the military is far more important than multibillion-dollar curiosity machines. In fact a good park for a community helps Americans more than the space telescope. Or use the 63 million dollars for housing.
Trim the budget, everywhere! Start with the house and senate members salaries until they remember how to balance the checkbook and pass a budget!
No it’s literally just the military.
the united states would be way better if they just took some money from the military’s budget for a few years to fix everything up thats wrong with our country like pollution and dirty cites and schools
@@CommentorX It’s the point of it.
@@rachinvocat9587 um how about NO!
@@UFRooster i mean if we were in a peaceful time its not a bad idea definitely not now though
😂 do you know how corruption works...or at this point, that it exists? 😅@@CommentorX
Chandra sends me emails. I’ve been getting them for like 10 years. Weekly photo updates. I would be so sad if it stopped. They share the coolest images.
Damn that telescope was really making an impact on human life here on earth too! 🤷 How did we ever live without it?
this current congress is an extinction level event
They are an elongation of Trump's private part. What he dictates is what happens. 1984 is today
Underrated comment.
Vote Obamna fo Amurica🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅
Haha yes
More like extinction of the American empire.
America needs to gets its act together . The people need to get back in charge because both parties , big Corp and bankers with their bail outs just takes our money , spend it and now limiting some of our rights in certain laws or passing bills that have more to it than they are saying .
How do you get the attention of people about this. ??
@@JamesSchrader-i7opeoples attention is grabbed, the 74m + DT supporters plus other pro-liberty people, but the den lead establishment is in control and pushes mass propaganda keeping their half asleep. We are trying to fight big government and get called terrorists for it
@@JamesSchrader-i7oEveryone already knows this yet nothing will be done. That is why this country is doomed. It's unfortunate because we can be so much better.
Bills. Yeah. Like, rent. Absolutely absurd, prices are. We need to get back to basics, before we're *forced,* back to basics.
Considering that we're the greatest I think we have our act together
The fighter jet comparison really put things in perspective. Completely misplaced priorities.
So, you’d rather tax money goes to study X-rays millions of light years away, rather than the defense of the country? Totally makes sense…
@@davidcovey3001 if the country only has 1 fighter jet plane then you make a good point. I don’t know how many there are but I’m sure there’s a lot more than 1.. There’s even warships that carry multiple planes on board
@@davidcovey3001
You're rather ignorant to think that balancing military defense and scientific development means neccesarily cutting off one to fund the other. It is very *Telling*
@@davidcovey3001 im not even in the us but u guys have already enough defensive power.
@@abdul123r
They have 2000 such planes actually.
At 40 trillion debt, i,m happy to see a cut back
Congress doesn't take care of bridges either. They haven't a clue. 😮
Considering that they doing dishwasher repair bills for all week speaks for itself.
They do they just don’t care.
But you’re wrong. Biden passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that to this day is underway. There is an article titled “At its two-year anniversary, the bipartisan infrastructure law continues to rebuild all of America” that also links to a White House website where you can see funding locations and active projects. Please do more research before making this kind of claim.
Exactly. This telescope is another waste of money. Who cares about x-rays in space?? Seriously. We have homeless people here right now that can use those millions of dollars. 😞
@@robertr7563 You're right, homelessness is a pressing issue. But don't forget that Chandra studies phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping us understand black holes and the universe's evolution. It's research helps us to develop real-world technology and inspires future scientists.
It's a separate issue from homelessness, but scientific progress benefits us all.
Chandra telescope- named after noble prize winner Indian - American scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
He is mostly known for giving the Chandrashekhar limit.
Good info! Also chandra means moon
i know this cos i do astronomy for GCSE. Great subject and i absolutely love my professor
👍👍
@@mandarbamane4268 Then he had the perfect name for a man who studied space
@@ThismayhelpUCorrection - in HINDI its called Chandra. India has so many languages. Don't generalize India with just Hindi.
Half of our congressmen don't know which end of a telescope to look thru.
That's the Republicans, due to worse education in red states, right?
They may not know which end of a telescope to look through, but they definitely know which pocket to put a bribe into.
Half of TH-cam space viewers don’t know how to look at other countries to fund it.
Half are looking through rainbow colored kaleidoscopes. And they like that just fine
That’s funny - they’re smart enough to be there while none of you aren’t.
Stop electing people you hate
I’m in Tennessee, I think I’m going to start looking at the sky at night . I’m in Murfreesboro. I work in Lebanon. I’m just surprised I haven’t seen anything . I kind of want to .
Chandra's budget is equivalent to one military grade toilet seat. Yet they cut its budget by 40% smh.
yet they cut it because the pew pews are more fun to them along w making fun of Obamna... yeah the US is fucked tbh
Because …it is Chandra 😮
@@blueberries2910 thats why chi n is winning
@@SapphicKitty Holy home school
And that's why China must be stopped. The US is so rotten and corrupt we can't even compete with Mexico!
Wait... a single f16 plane costs 63 Million? Usa has over 2000 of those planes!
That's over 120 Billion Dollars... the country's spending is fucked.
Exactly, stop the millitary and improve economy and living. Spend money on space aswell
As far as I know that is it's lifetime (55 years or so) cost to run and maintain.
Edit: As far as I know, this claim was pulled from someone's ass.
That's because spending in the military is arbitrary, it's not as simple as x costs that, the millitary purposefully wastes resources as that opens up more jobs for manufacturing which helps alleviate the cost in general, as since parts go from manufacturer to manufacturer who all want to make a profit the end result can be expensive, like 20x the original amount.
The military is gonna get that money back anyways, there are two types of money, the money that the government owns and the money that the government will own.
Not to mention all the millions spent on equipment abandoned in Afghanistan.
Tip of the iceberg. The government has a $1.6 trillion annual "discretionary" budget, more than half of which (military+veteran benefits) goes to the military. Meanwhile housing, transportation, energy, science, agriculture (things that genuinely benefit citizens) get about $50-$100 billion each. The only things it spends more on is the "mandatory" spending on social security and medicare, both of which are funded through huge dedicated paycheck deductions.
What? Governments making horrible yet easily avoidable mistakes? Well I never!
governmets also funded literally the entire field of space science, without government spending we'd be stuck in the middle ages because zero scientific breakthroughs would have happened if we relied on private investors who want immediate pay off
@@FelixPiseckerand still the're going off the track so we can go back to middle ages thanks to them
@@FelixPiseckerI disagree completely, what fueled the space race was prestige and knowledge over our govt's perceived enemies. They pumped money in for an immediate return of their own: faster progress than the other guys.
Now that they can't stroke their egos with that, there's cuts. I can't trust Uncle Sam as far as I can throw him.
@@FelixPisecker I could just as well say that if we only had left all that money in private hands it would have been invested more efficiently and given much better returns than anything the government did with it. But instead because the government steals money to do what it wants, we're badly behind in technological progress.
just letting you know if there were no leaders the government would still stand because the people would still be around. A government is just a group form of order for a country.
If we had no leaders that we voted on and lived anarchy it would be worse.
Yeah I keep seeing this in my dreams often and when the come like this one has, it’s going to be so bad and nobody can survive it
Take your meds. You're confusing sleepytime dreams with reality.
I wrote a whole paper on why the funding for NASA should be significantly higher, and this pains me. I hope they get their heads out of their asses and use their budget properly
They won’t get their heads out of their assess! It’s too far up to their non Neuron functioning Brains. Soul-less! 🤡👻
nasa would probably just go and waste it on some dei stuff anyway
You did a paper on NASA and didn't figure out what a horribly corrupt organization it is?
Couldn't have been much of a paper
Unless they find a way to start making steady profit off space, no one will care in our society.
I would love to read it, where can I find it
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake..." is a sentence-starter that seems to permanently apply
Yep. That statement is mutually inclusive.
I am created by God Yahweh and loved by God Yahweh. (Yahweh is God's name in Hebrew).
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake"
Is a phrase I hear more than I should 🤣 when hasn't Congress fucked up🤣
Are they sure it's not ASTROLOGY they're studying?.
The level of scientific understand in Congress is minimal. ASTRONOMY is way about their level of understanding. 😊
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake.." You could have stopped there because that's the only thing they do.
Wait a minute... IT ONLY COST A SINGLE STUPID FIGHTER JET THAT DOESN'T EVEN DO MUCH FOR HUMANITY!? AND THEY CAN'T EVEN AFFORD THAT!?
They can but there's more pressing issues. Hell, we're funding most of Europes military
@Readthis880 That's not how that works at all. Ukraine isn't getting money, it's getting military hardware.
US weapons companies are getting the money, and that money is getting taxed, and going right back to the government.
@Readthis880 Ukraine didn't started war - russia does started it
@Readthis880They funnelled the money through Ukraine*
Still a lot to learn, but you are on the right track.
@Readthis880 brain rot
Most Congressmen aren't scientists, they're lawyers. Don't expect them to understand how valuable Science is when their careers have been based upon subjective interpretations of reality and law.
It’s not valuable at all. We as American citizens do not gain anything at all from the telescope, why should we be forced to pay for it?
@@OceanMan15_but you have no mind congress investing billions on military with your tax money?
@@OceanMan15_I'm pretty sure someone ignorant will say this about half of scientific research that is not immediately applicable to daily life.
@@imperfectmammal2566 if it means we won't be attacked then yeah
@@OceanMan15_ Look up "EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT", then come back and tell us about how an X-ray telescope is not valuable at all, and "we", because you're apparently speaking for yourself, do not gain anything from it.
In other words, sit down and let the adults talk.
"Congress is about to make a huge mistake."
As they always do.
I heard him say that and instinctively said "Again?"
.....according to this cat.......his gravy train must be at risk? ........or he wants a huge raise? 😮
“Congress is about to make a huge mistake…in other news, water is wet.”
Fun fact, the entire apollo program (one of the most revolutionary and impressive endeavors in mankind) cost 100 billion dolllars over the course of 10 years, it cost the same as 2 months of the us military budget
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Try 280 billion in todays money, about 4% of the national budget at its peak. Today that same 4% would look like over 800billion in funding as opposed to the $25billion they get.
NASA invents or buys inventions for the space agency. Thies inventions are then made available to the public for free . Spreading the wealth. The microwave oven is one of these inventions.
Maybe if Boeing wasn't one of the contractors, they'd have more $$$. Government tends to reward non perform ing contractors by giving them even more $$$$
All fake. It was just a con to tax us more
For those who don't know, Chandra is named after Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
I thought it was named after Hindu🕉️ moon god CHANDRA
@@churutvai1040 the moon itself is called Chandra, it's seen as a GOD (anything that helps us survive is seen as GOD in Hindu culture, like SUN, WATER, AIR, EARTH, etc)
Also it wouldn't make sense to call the telescope Chandra as it has nothing to do with Moon.
Interesting, sounds like Chandrasekhar is a nominative determinism@@churutvai1040
@@MarcSpctr that means human beings are god as well according to you
@@nanashi7779Many cultures have names inspired by or full on taken from their deities. E.g. Jesus is not a very popular name for European Christians, but it is for Latin American Christians, as one example.
I'm glad you mentioned the comparison of cost of Chandra's maintenance budget to a single F-16 fighter jet. Why do warmongers get to hog most of the tax money when the USA is not in any declared war effort against an existential enemy threat? Why does the USA spend 3 times what the next biggest spender on defense spends, China--- 16 times what Russia spends? Why does Congress waste over a $trillion dollars per year on national security, and defense? Is the enemy threat anywhere near what they assert to the public? National defense is more about corruption than any real need.
Sadly Russia and China will take advantage of any American weakness. We will see that over the next 4 years.
Yes. And your people love that. That’s why they keep voting for trump.
@leebliss3622 to be fair, the education system in the USA has completed failed. That's the real reason people voted for tRump. We need a complete overhaul
Why should NASA get any money? Looking into deep space is cool and interesting but it cannot save humanity or clean our planet or heal anyone.
Spend money into war = no goodhearted leaders.
Why do you think the west wants everyone to ramp up the military. To keep everyone in check and in control, not for our safety, it's for theirs.
Damn. They should've cut the budget straight outta compton...😏
The fact you have to make a # to save this shows us whoever is in charge is an absolute idiot 🤦♂️
Actually, it’s not necessarily the one in charge. It could be as simple as the opposition not allowing a vote .
Just to point out: Republican Party has been blocking everything for a year now. It’s an election and political strategy to make the other party look incompetent to the voters who DON’T pay attention to politics.
Just remember the people in charge are the same ones sending 200+ bn dollars to fund a war (in one single country out of many in one year) and they are also taking hundreds of millions in Tax payers money to fly and transport 10's of millions of illegal immigrants into hotels, buying entire buildings and renovating them and so on. In fact in 1 year The current admin has let more than the entire population of Australia into America,.
This is why you need to vote RED
@@Aussie-Mocha Let’s not pretend that the (R) or a (D) beside a politicians name means anything, it’s called the Uniparty for a reason. Maybe if we keep sending billions to Ukraine, things will change. 🙄
@@galenmarek8287haha. Who's gonna allow you to stop sending money to Ukraine? Don't forget you're forced to do that because Ukraine gave all of its nukes to you years ago. You're not going out that easy lil bro
@@galenmarek8287Yeah, no.. there’s a huge difference between (R) and (D) today. If you can’t see that after the last ~8 years? No telescope is going to help you. The “bOtH pArTiEs BaD!” fake centrist bs helps no one and accomplishes nothing. One party believes in science, one does not. One party is vehemently trying to take basic human rights away from women, the other one fights for it. One party is filled with anti-vax, Christian nationalist, bigots.. the other is not. One repeatedly gives the ultra-wealthy tax breaks while actively working to make the lives of working class people worse, the other is not. So stop with this nonsense.
I still can't believe that Congress would even consider decommissioning Chandra. Writing my Congressperson right now.
Have you seen the absolute clowns the Biden administration has?
Don't write call, someone wrote above interns send call tally sheets directly to congress representatives.
Call... don't write. I wrote, got a bs email response by someone other than who I enrolled, using his name. Clueless of the response and instead stress persuading me into my political vote.
The emails are just BS staff replies, they aren't tracked. The calls are tracked
They need an infrared telescope, because..X-reason
NASA is completely fake... don't believe them.
Makes you wonder how there could be cuts on anything when they're spending more money than ever. Where's all the money going?
Look into their own personal wealth money laundering 101
How is a “public servant” suddenly worth millions after a couple of years in congress? More importantly, why does everyone look the other way?
See how much money they are sending to Israel and Ukraine
They were also discussing decreasing the budget of the NIH
@@AhmedAshraf-iu2ldThey're barely sending anything compared to how much they just throw at the military to play with.
@@SMthegamer1
Ignoring the fact that they are funding a mass slaughter in Gaza
I agree with you.
But that isn't because they aren't sending a ton of money, it is because they are wasting insane amounts of money on the defense budget
They are goings to fucken send 60 billion dollars to Ukraine, that's nearly 40% more than the whole NIH budget and about 3 times NASA's budget.
Just to be clear, I support Ukrainians defending their land. But it is insane to spend all of this money on a war a world away from your nation while you are defunding your health institute
I’d be more interested to know why NASA proposed this budget. Seems the issue is more with them than Congress given how it was worded.
Man, sometimes I am reminded just how much our society sucks at prioritizing spending.
Society or the GOV?
Don't say Society all the time, GOV is to blame
government***
Since when is Congress the same as society? Imagine if everyone watching this video could choose what their tax money went towards. Then we could see what society would do.
Nope.
Keep the military well funded.
Public funding of research should be one of the places where governments should never cut costs among health care, culture and education, and the USA is behind the rest of the world on all these policies...
Agree, wholeheartedly.
So long as congress is controlled by the right, so it will remain. Education is Kryptonite to autocracy.
The US spends more (whichever way you slice it) than any other country. It's just spent terribly.
That's where you're wrong. It's not the amount we spend. It's how we spend it. We just waste money left and right.
The biggest problem that needs solving first is your antiquated election system, which the US inherited from the English and unfortunately the English were already antiquated compared to the rest of Europe then.
Y'all didn't have trouble ditching the tea in favour of coffee, so surely you don't need to remain clingy to the two party system either.;)
Having a true multiparty coalition system, with at least 5 parties and a dozen or so candidates, would depolarise politics so much and be a much better representation. So much more common sense would have a chance to prevail over two party bickering.
It's ridiculous that currently two individuals essentially pretend to represent all the opinions of 341 million people.
They absolutely can't and everything turns into a pissing contest into who can one up the only other competition.
Currently for instance, based on what I've heard, most Americans don't actually want either Trump or Biden again. The ones that do vote, in large part do so only because they really don't want the other guy.
Strategic voting does exist in multi party coalition systems, but it gets watered down immensely. The same with populist voting. A populist can win, but he might not succeed in forming a majority coalition or any at all. Even when they do, they have other parties demands to take into account.
Everything becomes a compromise of some sort, which is what you want in a society of millions of different people trying to live together. Instead of a ruling party steamrolling in one direction until the other guy gets a run and blocks everything and goes in the opposite direction. It's such a toxic wasteful system that ignores every position that isn't in one of two extremes.
You'll also save billions in ridiculous campaign spending that's mostly spent on throwing mud to the other guy. You can't be quite as childish when there's a dozen other real choices that potentially present themselves better and less annoying.
Gerrymandering dissappears too, with so many more choices such polarisation by district can simply not exist.
It will ofc be a hugely complicated thing to change, there are several mechanisms in effect currently that make it very resistant to change.
But I do advise any American that wants to have their voice heard and represented, to look into those blocks and work together with others to develop ways to overcome them.
Because a representative democracy for 341 million people with only two real options, isn't much of a representation nor much of a democracy.
It's your country, you deserve better, make it happen.😊
I’m sorry, we’ve got hundreds of fighter jets but only one telescope. How is this even a question? What insane budget priorities.
The military is only 15% of the US budget. 55% of all spending is entirely on the welfare state. That’s what we really need to cut
We have 987 F-16s in the US. This is insanity. Just the military industrial complex at work.
@@kirleyq1394 We have several powerful countries that would love to kill us and our allies. Space is not trying to kill us
Also, while space is fascinating it's not a particularly useful line of study unless we actually plan on colonizing. Knowing there's a giant black hole 200,000 light years away doesn't actually provide any practical benefit or advancement to humanity
@@captainuseless2120More than that, Social Security and Medicare together are closer to 70% of the budget, and there's other programs too. I would venture to guess that 70-80% of the budget is some form of welfare spending
@@captainuseless2120 I'm not sure that's a good idea, especially since quality of life and human welfare is one of the U.S.'s best selling points. Though they should be focusing on their own people instead of importing immigrants for welfare.
MORE ABSURD TO GIVE IT MONEY, WHEN THE COUNTRY IS ABOUT TO FACE THE WORST DEPRESSION IN ITS HISTORY...
Think about the money went to is ra el
Money is not being wasted in Military and weapons. It is being earned by the politicians from the back door. 😂
No it is being spent on military and probably making themselves richer. They need to stop giving that money to isrl and start spending it on this.
That’s why so much of the Ukraine money is missing
Weapon manufacturers are absolutely scamming the government, they charge 10x the value for super basic parts like screws and bolts
No, it all goes to the rich. Only a small percentage of it goes to the politicians through the back door. But enough to keep them the puppets of the rich. Puppets with the you know what of the rich up their back doors.
Hey don't knock it too much. Making money with "the back door" is how your father made his money.
How about we cut back these corrupt politicians budgets!!!
« we » ? You expect politicians to cut their own salary? That’s not even where their money come from.
The politicians have nothing to do with this right now. NASA produced the budget, it's just up to congress to approve it.
@@lebrewski3103that’s the sad truth…
😊 yep I agree 👍
@@lebrewski3103why do you think i said we? For one taxation is theft if we ALL banned together and stopped payin bs taxes we'd get somewhere. Just goin thru our daily motions of being money graped politicians are gonna keep taking.
We have to give that money to war profiteers instead
Yep. Gotta launder that money in Ukraine.
??? AMERICANS DON'T REALISE THAT A WORLD WHERE RUSIA AND CHINA GET THE HEGEMONY AND A WORLD WHERE USA IS OUT OF NATO (WITH NO ALLIES) THE USA WILL DISAPPEAR IN QUESTION OF WEEKS, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE USA... BUT KEEP TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES...
RUSSIA IS MANAGING TO CHANGE THE WORLD ORDER WITH THE WAR OF UKRAINE, AND CONVINCING THE USA TO GET OUT OF NATO, AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A TELESCOPE???... AMERICANS DON'T REALISE THAT A WORLD WHERE RUSIA AND CHINA GET THE HEGEMONY AND A WORLD WHERE USA IS OUT OF NATO (WITH NO ALLIES) THE USA WILL DISAPPEAR IN QUESTION OF WEEKS, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WHOLE USA... BUT KEEP TALKING ABOUT TELESCOPES...
Don't forget illegal immigrants.
@@ursafan40 "Illegal" immigrants are the backbone of the agricultural economy. They're why you have food on your plate. They also handle extremely toxic chemicals and are constantly ill. The agricultural sector needs to spend less on dangerous pesticides, and more on their paychecks. And in that event, maybe the costs to the Healthcare industry might go down. Don't be needlessly cruel and misanthropic, be reasonable.
(Also, an fyi: drug cartels use white kids to smuggle usually. They get less attention from border patrol.)
Edit: also, imagine comparing immigrants to war profiteers lmao.
Congress is about to make a huge mistake... LOL. First, they'd have to start working instead of arguing to make a mistake!
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