If it helps - it doesn't sound like any machines are moving yet. NCAR is in CO and the supercomputing facility is in WY, just over the border. What it does sound like is swapping management, which means your first sentence is on-point - the reason you keep the computers in-house is keeping cost low!

In the late 1800s, when people started using the word "donate", it made some folks mad. The word is a back-formation of the word "donation" and was seen as a degradation of English.
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

This ancient Mesopotamian carved rock is a forgery, purporting to come from an even more ancient time. The writing on it is extremely fake and old timey in a way that is obvious to archaeologists. It includes the line 'this is not a lie, it is indeed the truth' www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

(anyway thank you for posting your reaction thread - I am adding this to the to read list)

The response to the priming is pretty telling and I bet that was part of the experimental setup!

The question doesn't say anything about what the people in the cult do or believe - but the word "cult", followed by the government response, is going to prime your respondents.

I think the word "cult" (as opposed to "club", "society" or even"advocacy group") is really important in that question, especially within shooting distance of this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic...

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Great news: Of the 2 sky shots I got, one of them was for the good foreground! What a win! 🛰️

I mean, yeah, this is the Sermon on the Mount and we Christians have had our best lawyers drilling loopholes in that for 2,000 years.

But still, swearing an oath on a Bible is like getting a Leviticus 19:28 tattoo. It only makes sense as deliberate, transgressive irony.