re: #50 Charles Johnson

In regards to Trump laying waste to America, one of the featured speakers at AGU this year was NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati, and his talk “Earth from Space: The Power of Perspective” turned from technical to politics at the end. He’s in a tough spot, but to me seems to be trying to formulate a strategy of how much to fight and how much to accept, in regards to possible Trump attacks on NASA scientists.

The bottom line is that Congress controls the spending and during the Obama years the Congress pretty much went with Obama’s plan of restoring NASA’s Earth Science budget to where it was before the GWB administration let it lapse.

The bad thing about Trump, though, is that he’ll put any idiot into an administrative position as long as it brings Trump more power and glory, and I can see Trump replacing the NASA heads with the likes of Gingrich.