内容摘要："Once going through the inquest you see that this is potentially happening across the country," he said.

"Once going through the inquest you see that this is potentially happening across the country," he said.

But as the world's largest dating app, Tinder's experiment with height filtering still has huge significance, and has sparked discussion in Britain too.At 5ft 9in, Matt Heal, from Manchester, says he feels jaded about the online dating scene.

Matt's around average height for a man in the UK, but says some daters' preferences for taller men have disadvantaged him on the apps."As someone who is neither very tall nor financially well off, I have definitely felt desensitised about dating [using apps]," he says.The 28-year-old thinks it's understandable that apps like Tinder try to optimise their matching algorithms, though.

"People have preferences based on all sorts of things," Matt says, adding these features help people "see others they are interested in, rather than swiping for hours on people you don't consider compatible".However, he thinks daters shouldn't be too rigid about what they're looking for.

"If you were into people who are over six feet, would you really not date someone who's 5ft 11in" - if they were good looking and had similar interests?"

Matt feels it's easier for men his height to meet people offline, explaining that meeting someone in person, through mutual friends, for example, can mean a less prescriptive approach."These Earth Observation programmes are our canary in the coal mine," he told BBC News.

"Our ability to predict the impact of climate change and mitigate against it could be drastically reduced. If we turn off this early warning system it is a frightening prospect."The budget proposals have yet to be approved by Congress. The Planetary Society's Casey Dreier has told BBC News that many Republicans have told lobbyists privately that they are prepared to vote against the cuts.

But, Mr Dreier worries that there is a strong possibility that political gridlock might mean that no budget is agreed.It is likely that the reduced White House budget would be put in place as an interim measure, which then could not easily be reversed, because once space missions are turned off it is hard, if not impossible, to start them up again.