A few statements from the videos that got my attention:
"We've got symptoms in society today. We're going broke. We're mired in debt. We don't have as many scientists as we want or need and jobs are going overseas. I assert that these are not isolated problems..that they're the collective consequence, the absence of ambition that consumes you when you stop having dreams."
"Epic space adventurers plant seeds of economic growth. Because doing what's never been done before is intellectually seductive whether or not we deem it practical and when you conduct those exercises, innovation follows just as day follows night. And when you innovate, you lead the world. You KEEP your jobs and concerns over tariffs and trade regulations evaporate".
"The bank bailout, that sum of money, is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA."
"..and so when someone says 'we don't have enough money for the space probe', I'm asking "No, it's not that you don't have enough money, it's that the distribution of the money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about, tomorrow. Do you remember the 60's? Do you remember the 60's and 70's? You didn't have to go more than a week before their was an article in Life Magazine "The Home of Tomorrow", "The City of Tomorrow", "the transportation of tomorrow" all that ENDED in the 1970s. After we stopped going to the moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming. And so I worry that the decisions that Congress makes doesn't factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. Tomorrow is GONE-metaphorically. They are playing for the quarterly report, they're playing for the next election cycle and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation."
And when Neil DeGrasse Tyson states what he perceives as "the most astounding fact" ..... Meh, say some.
Great post redliner!
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