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NASA will not warn us about asteroids over Twitter during the shutdown
- coldcode 13y agoThis is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today Here am I sitting in a tin can far above the world Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
- linker3000 13y agoThat's more than 140 characters.
- tokenizer 13y agoAnd apparently some Panda in a reserve wont be fed according to the news. It's pretty sick when people believe this is the only way to partially shut down the government. Most of the NSA (85%), FBI (85%), CIA (85%), Congress (Fully), The Judicial Branch, The Senate (Fully) will be paid and working. If the US government partially shuts down the government, but chooses to spend on defense but not National Parks and NASA, then it chooses to shut down in that way...
- masklinn 13y agoI'm not sure who picks "essential" versus "non-essential" services, but IIRC that's the criteria for being funded versus not being funded during partial shutdown.
- tokenizer 13y agoI guess my point was that if people are complaining about certain services being cut due to a shutdown, the people should be equally mad about what services get shut down during a shutdown. They've happened enough in the last 50 years to warrant a more open debate.
- AlisdairSH 13y ago> And apparently some Panda in a reserve wont be fed according to the news. I think you misheard. The panda web camera feed will be shut down. Pretty sure they'll still feed the little critter... http://jezebel.com/government-shutdown-might-kill-an-adorable-panda-cam-1429790611 http://jezebel.com/government-shutdown-might-kill-an-adorabl...
- mherdeg 13y agoIt's also economically in our best interest to keep feeding the pandas. We're contractually obliged to China to feed pandas in the National Zoo — if a panda dies due to American misconduct, we have to pay them $800,000. See http://qr.ae/N5H14 http://qr.ae/N5H14 // http://web.mit.edu/mherdeg/Public/smithsonian-panda-agreement-2011.pdf http://web.mit.edu/mherdeg/Public/smithsonian-panda-agreemen... . I'm not sure how feeding the other zoo animals would qualify as "essential", but for pandas there are diplomatic (and monetary!) concerns.
- tokenizer 13y agoWow. Thanks for the detailed information!
- Shivetya 13y agoYawn, sorry its been done better before... I guess the sycophants in the press had to start somewhere. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
- nateabele 13y agoDon't worry, my friend Rick[0] told me it was going to be okay. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Binzel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Binzel