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Neil Tyson on What NASA Means to America's Future

submitted by Ryjkyj

1 decade 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pretty damned compelling argument for keeping NASA afloat.

7 Comments

"No one's dreaming of tomorrow anymore."

Cut to stuffy white guy in suit.

He's just a college student really. He may be stuffy but he asked decent question imo. Besides which it led to a spectacular answer. Still, I understand the point, and the guy did look a little uncomfortable.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, April 4th, 2010 1:09am PDT - promote requested by NicoleBee.

NASA is a cold war relic created to one up the Russians who one uped us. I have several friends that work with NASA (they employee an army of contractors), so I am close to the issue on wanting them to stay around in current form so they keep their jobs. BUUUTTT (and you knew it was coming), rockets are hardly buses or trains. It is hardly the backbone of infrastructure like he was referencing. Rockets, and space in general are a bold and interesting place for science to be conducted, but shouldn't be forced. If people are convinced by his argument (and I am) I would give hundreds of dollars to a commercial, benevolent space organization. If the entity that was NASA went "public", I know I would invest it its future, more than I am currently forced to.

how much would you pay for the universe???

I gonna pay half a dollar but i want it all!!!

azukipie says...

I just found this today! LOVE IT. Thanks for posting it here.

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