'bout tree fiddy.

Hear hear!

Depressing *talks.

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Urgh, I can't stand the soaring music... just let his talking stand on its own.

But again, why the FUCK is so much money spent on the military and it's NOT QUESTIONED, but NASA gets a damn pittance? WHY?

"Why should our money be spent on NASA?"

Why the hell do people ask that and not "Why is SO MUCH of our money being spent on building a ginormous military might which promotes violence?"

Sad, so fricken sad.

Meh. Too inspiring.

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

Also...

>> ^spoco2:

Urgh, I can't stand the soaring music... just let his talking stand on its own.
But again, why the FUCK is so much money spent on the military and it's NOT QUESTIONED, but NASA gets a damn pittance? WHY?
"Why should our money be spent on NASA?"
Why the hell do people ask that and not "Why is SO MUCH of our money being spent on building a ginormous military might which promotes violence?"
Sad, so fricken sad.


Because if you don't spend 600 billion a year blowing shit up the communists/terrorists/<insert-fear-of-the-day> will get you.

let's go leave more $multimillion junk in space!

Good speech.. but the 'god bless america' sign could have been left out of the video. We're talking about science and research here. Not clinging to bronze age myths to pacify human emotional insecurities.

>> ^honkeytonk73:

Good speech.. but the 'god bless america' sign could have been left out of the video. We're talking about science and research here. Not clinging to bronze age myths to pacify human emotional insecurities.


Its not the rational-minded intelligent people that they are trying to appeal to in this video. Most of the smart ones are in favor of promoting NASA.

Here's the original without the music and all of the god stuff to appease the masses.

http://youtu.be/RQhNZENMG1o

Universe eh? Looks a little rusty to me. Besides, I'm not sure I need another whole universe kicking around. Tell ya what, I'll tow it off your lot for 50 bucks.

Considering the universe is a whole lotta nothin, I'd probably pay a whole lotta nothin. Everything we've seen and explored is a depressing, barren wasteland of nothingness. How about we go find a suitable planet to live on and wipe out all the dinosaurs on it so we can make a new home and build stargates between the two worlds so we can send nukes back and forth and wage war trying to control sections of that new world and destroy it just like we have this one?

I mean come on, people! Let's push up!

Upvote for a scientist spouting irrelevancies and illogic like a religious apologist.

He first refers to the 1958 Space Act like its directives are gospel that everyone just accepts.

Then all the rest of it is either:

• meaningless ("You know, at some point, you gotta look up"; "They're the ones that make tomorrow come"; "Heroes are made"),
• unverifiable ("We have known that those nations who make those investments lead the world."),
• xenephobic ("I see the most powerful particle accelerators in some other country, the fastest trains are built by Germany and are running in China right now"), or
• wrong and illogical ("Teachers come and go, 'cause I go to the next grade."). Seriously? He's knocking teachers because they only teach you for one year? WTF!!!!
  
  And he finishes the the biggest logical turd, "How much would you pay for the Universe?", as if NASA is going to go to UniverseMart and buy it, or as if the Chinese are going to buy it then we can't have it. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
  
  Maybe NASA is a worthy institution to support, but none of this is an appeal to logic. My guess is he was speaking in a red state and was purposefully appealing to emotion only, trying to tap into their religious fervour.