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Re:Hurricane forecasters scrambling after sudden shutdown of... by tw04 on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:16AM (#44393876)
> The forecasters maybe should have prepared for this

Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?

You might as well be telling the guy that just got shot he should try being more bulletproof.

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Re:Hurricane forecasters scrambling after sudden shutdown of... by potato3732842 on Friday June 27, 2025 @10:02AM (#44396884)
>Prepared how exactly? Developed a whole new branch of science that doesn’t currently exist? Raised a billion dollars to launch some satellites everyone expected a functioning government to take care of?

Get off the legacy platform and onto the new platform like they were given a decade of warning to do. The JPSS satellites are supposed to be providing the info used to do this job.

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