Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How? My point was that management decisions regarding JPL don’t come from NASA. Misremembering the institution doesn’t negate the point I was making.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    of course it does. nasa pays the bills and they are the ones who say “we will hire or fire people, because we do or do not have money”. management from caltech says “ok, these are the people who have expertise we need”.

    you don’t think they are giving money to someone and that someone does whatever they want with these money, do you?

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s literally how think tanks work. Their paychecks come from Caltech not NASA. They answer to the board of governors not NASA.

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