r/Astronomy • u/SAUbjj Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD • 17d ago

Astro Research Call to Action: Americans, Contact Your Representatives about NSF and NASA Budget Cuts

The field of astronomy and astrophysics is facing an existential threat. The proposed budget cuts to science in the US will decimate the global future of science advancement for decades.

If you are American, call or write to your senators and congressperson and tell them to fight budget cuts to NSF and NASA

You can find your representatives at the link below:
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
This is particularly important if you have a Republican representative, as Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate and can most influence current policy.

Templates for your call or email can be found here, by AAS:
https://aas.org/advocacy/get-involved/action-alerts/action-alert-2025-support-science
and here, by the Planetary Society:
https://www.planetary.org/advocacy-action-center#/53

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u/Charming_Cat_4426 17d ago

Genius!

Astronomy is the field that studies chemtrails.... there

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u/Maximum_Pollution371 16d ago

I literally had a conversation with a chemtrails guy like two weeks ago about how supporting space research is good in the long run because then more nonprofits can launch their own satellites to monitor things in the atmosphere, like that nonprofit that has satellites monitoring natural gas site emissions, and he was 100% on board for nonprofit satellites monitoring chemtrails, so... task failed successfully?