I understand the argument that we need to invest in problems down here on Earth. BUT, there is more to life than just sustaining it. We need some kind of inspiration that makes life worth living.
NASA is the most important agency in the world, the problem is, the majority of people are too thick to even think about it never even realise it. The same people who take for granted the signal on their mobile phone for example, are the people who say "well why are we going up there when there is suffering down here?"
If I lived in the USA I'd prefer $1 of my $1 to go to places like NASA. Science is universal and every nation and everybody in those nation should support things like NASA because of what it stands for. One day it will benefit the Human Race as a whole and we'll look back at NASA and we'll be thankful we did spend money on it and programmes like it. Our future is in Space and on other worlds and we should strive for it because we have the power too.
@AnAstroNutt : Way over rated, the propaganda that science will someday terraform planets or move stars and galaxies like they were bolders is naive. Think about; it took billions of years for life to appear on earth, billions of years from energy sources on earth and the sun to build the compounds for a breathable atmosphere and life. Do you know how much energy that is? Trying to terraform a planet within a 100 years the radiation generated from the energy created would poison that planet!
@AnAstroNutt: Star Trek like spaceships not going to happen! The energy for a ship to reach the speed of light are immense, also specks of dust when colliding with the ship at such speeds would have the equivalent reaction of an atomic bomb!
The future of the exploration of interstellar space will be from very large space telescopes, where actually seeing earth size planets will be possible. Any spaceships making a journey to such planets will be the size of a bumble bee!
we NEED private companies going into space to charter the way for the future!! They can get us there if there can be a profit made somehow- like charging more people to take them into orbit, etc...
Or else the government should stop spending a trillion dollars a year on their OVERSEAS spending and send it to NASA :)
We have to help NASA now... Push them back to space. Volunteer to help them, Become the new heroes of Space. We can't sit here, We can't just rot away and watch everyone flying off into the unknown!
We must fuckin' go beyond the stars we see in the night. We must see how we can go and show people how dreams are made.
The cold war is want drove the space race, unfortunately that paranoia while motivating new frontiers it did so in way that didn't look at long term solutions. For instance: why should the U.S. carry the burden to embark on missions to the moon? Why not invite the rest of the free world to join in and share the costs? The amount of wasted spending for petty tools, like $800 wrenches and $1200 hammers ran rapid during the cold war era. NASA is proof that socialism doesn't work...
@sirriNfrank : The problem is not socialism, it is capitalism. Rampant, greedy capitilism, which is not held accountable for its actions. Capitalism that can steal trillions of dollars from American homeowners, and not spend a day in jail, but oh no! instead get billions of dollars of the taxpayer's money because "they're too big to fail."
@AnAstroNutt: Agreed that bankers should have been held accountable for their negligence, but they didn't steal any money from American home owners. Also the choice of government leaders that home owners have to suffer while banks get bailed out is unconscionable! But here again is big brother solving our problems, yet another example that socialism doesn't work. Rome fell because of the incompetence of its leaders...
For those of you who consider Tyson's call to dream, that's precisely what it is. By the comments you're leaving about the "nonsense" and heroes and the future, it's obvious living in this country surrounded by instant gratification and pretty pictures and sounds has dampened your capacity to dream as well. That part I pity.
I don't know. I fully support ongoing NASA projects, but this sounds like it's targeting the wrong part. It's amorphous ephemeral nonsense about "heroes" and "the future" when he should be arguing for the actual tangible physical, technological, and political benefits NASA's work creates.
Oh cmon, are you kidding me? I am into tech and science and all, but there are so many people suffering on this planet,... How much would you pay FOR PEACE
@softilol Most of the problems in this world stem from bad politics not lack of money. Africa is a prime and very unfortunate example. If you donate a dollar to help a starving child in Sub-Saharan Africa that child will only ever see $0.30. However the governments that keep the people living in poverty, will get about $0.40 - $0.50 through duties they charge on incoming foreign aid, but people keep throwing money at the problem as though what hasn't worked for years will suddenly work today.
Neil de Grasse Tyson is an Alumni of SUNY @ Buffalo.....MY alma Mater. I am proud to say that and I wish every time someone calls me a racist because I believe Oblama is a freaking joke, they could see that I see this man for what he is a VISIONARY - not a man, or a black man. I am a 32 year veteran of human space flight and I am PROUD of that. I am ashamed of my president, his whack-job science advisor, John Holgren, the 2-star general administrator, and America for letting all this happen.
Welcome back to the stone age everyone. If you thought this country was lacking in vision you can confirm that by watching our manned space program being dismantled. I guess it shouldn't come as a great surprise since we're only now realizing that funding this country on borrowed money might not be the best way to go...
Those who say that NASAs budget could be sent to Africa are fucking morons. There's no lack of funds. NASAs budget ranged from 0.5% to 1% since the '70s and peaked at 4% under the Apollo program. Imagine what NASA could do with about 5%, let alone developped nations altogether, as I'm not even American. Let the shit countries sort out their own affairs and concentrate on technology to improve the quality of life of your citizens and not of fucking ungrateful arabs.
Last year I walked into the Houston Parks & Rec. building to rent a picnic area. I saw it was a NASA building. U.S. spends all this money on defense, well as a former soldier I call tell you I didn't see any of it. I did see Soldiers on welfare,old equipment, 1999 we saw computers with Windows operating systems. Its time to envision a strong America but we have too much to lose. Till the day the rich are few and the poor are too many then we'll see the fire in the eyes of Americans again.
The poor in Africa need more then half a penny on a dollar. Cut away just 10% of the global military spending which is over 2 trillion dollars per year, and I think we can get that covered.
@Zvesda No doubt about that. The army spends more on air conditioning than the total NASA budget. I just thought his stat was empty the math equation wasn't complete
When I grow up, I want to kick this guys ass for being a whiney little bitch. We all know the military is going to pick up where NASA left off since we will soon have to weaponize our shuttles to fend off China from tampering with our satellites.
FUCK the military spending, let em find something else to do.
FUCK the homeland security spending, because the citizens should be the country's security. (You cannot invade the mainland America, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass - Isoroku Yamamoto.)
ALL of that money should EXCLUSIVELY go to NASA.
When economic times are good, there should be a mandatory tax of 5% of all incomes so they may go to NASA.
EVERY DAMN PENNY is worth the space program, and more! Man I resent those small minds.. Good luck with your happy happy planet when a rock the size of Mount Everest comes crashing down, and you don't have an answer ready.
@Imakeplanesboom I probably didn't express myself properly. I'm not against space exploration. I just doubt that the international community (the "world") will do this through cooperation rather than competition. See, they are weaponizing space...
Fuck spending money on stem cell research and other stuff!
First let's find a another planet that is inhabitable for us then we can go about spending our money on learning how to live forever!
Honestly! Think about it, the worlds population is multiplying in its growth so there is soon to be not enough space! If we waste money on living longer that rate of multiplication continually grows!
Apparently the amount of kids someone will have can almost be seen beforehand if you know those persons IQ.
As wonderful as all this sounds, let's face reality. USA is no longer the superpower it once was, and the nearly 700 billion in military spending seems like a desperate attempt to keep its influence around the world.
It seems more important at the moment to address other issues, and what is dreaming going to do for us in a practical situation? Even if NASA gets back the necessary funding for it's operations, it still won't change the fact our country's economy is down in the drain.
Fine...I'll bite. To everyone complaining about the "God Bless America" crap, you do realize Tyson is criticizing America right? Am I expecting too much to think that it should be blatantly obvious to anyone who watches this?
Man is a terrestrial being, and can only go to terrestrial worlds that are not too hot - therefore, in the Solar System, only the Moon, Mars and perhaps a very rocky moons of the outer planets. And going to other star systems is out of the question as well since even a system that could get on the order of the speed of light would take 10 years as a round trip. We should set up an array of telescopes on the far side of the Moon so that we can do deep space exploration there.
Another thing is NASA creates technology for other areas such as medical, nuclear science...I cant tell you how much equiment i work with that the technology came from NASA. I dont understand why there hasnt been a moon base where you can build a space craft as big as you want it and you dont have to fight the earths gravity to make it to orbit. There you can develope and experiement with false gravity.
Innovation is like a garden hose. If there is no water pressure, then no matter how much water is available, nothing will ever come out of the hose.
In support of Manned Space Flight, NASA and NASA's subcontractors have invented hundreds of thousands of things that we all use every single day. We can all pretend that NASA will continue make our country a scientific leader in the world, but with no mission, with no goal, with nothing driving us to be the best, we'll only ever get a trickle.
Well done beuatiful speech... I was thinking about this yesterday well sorta I thought imagine a World in where we had peace between all nations, Imagine how much money we could put into are space program and imgaine how advance we would be by now. unfournatly there will all ways be war that humanity for you. Also God bless America, Russia and Japan you guys have done a lot for space I wish my tiny Island (Britain) would do more for space hopefully one day we get our own spacecraft.
Gizmodo put it best. "[It] makes me want to crotchpunch any moron who whines every time a probe reaches a distant planet, a telescope is deployed or a rocket is launched."
Yes there are a ton of problems down here on earth. There's a place for down-to-earth practical science and aid and work that helps people survive and begin to thrive. That type of work is just as under-funded as NASA except when it very occasionally makes the evening news instead of the latest scandal-gate. Big obvious science like NASA is inspiring even if it doesn't directly feed the hungry. There's a place for that, too. Neither is expensive at all compared to government budgets.
@aomega6 Well I get a little sick of the nationalist crap when it comes to ventures into space. There is no america above the earth and the astronauts are humans before anything else, so why talk about how NASA is an american achievement? So what if the hadron collider was built in a country outside america, it benefits all of humanity as does space travel.
The United States of America has to get its problems sorted out. We are going to be passed by other countries if we don't solve our own problems and get the country out of debt.
The minute the video started and i saw that ''God bless America'' sign.. i was like...ok? Selfish much? And i felt leftout.. :( Thus making me no longer interested in this vid. Bye
Yeah. Because even though there are douche religious people, there cannot possibly be religious people working in science and tech? Seriously, this shit is no better than the fundamental principles of backwards peoples from any view point. America is about freedom...except for those people who have beliefs. You are a part of the problem.
I don't understand what u are reffering to when it comes to my comment. Religious or not we all should do what we want as long as your not hurting anybody. We all are human and we should stop putting each other in categories and start pointing fingers. Just live your lofe peacefully and so will I. :) I was clearly joking with my comment. Sorry if it offended you. I'm muslim btw and have no trouble with science at all! I even love it. :)
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Wait!!!!! we are not going to the moon anymore, maybe one day..but let's work on some tech that might enable that someday!!!!, how did they go to the moon in the first place then?
You know,can't we just solve our problems on earth first!
What really upsets me is how close we actually are to colonizing spaceby means of orbital space stations and actually mining meteors and asteroids and noone really wants to consider how ridiculously profitable this would be. A lot of meteors are made up almost entirely out of one element. One rather large meteor worth of any metal we use shipped down to earth would completely level the global market for that metal... It'd be the equivalent of years worth of mining under earth's surface.
@eLLriDe420 -Don't let your thinking be so meek. You must think hundreds of years down the road. Generations of explorers expanding in all directions of the universe. All up for discovery and on into infinity.
WAit for Russia and China to catch up in space technology and steal their technology, this way u save alot of money and give China a taste of their own medicine, see how they like it when US steals their technology.
@superphi NASA's current budget is about $19 billion. Not much when you consider everything NASA does. However, recent proposed House legislation propose a cut to about $16 billion.
America would rather build bombs to kill people rather then explore. Would rather build bombs then educate our youth. Would rather build bombs then feed the hungry. Seems the US gov't would rather build bombs and weapons then do the right thing.
This is one of the saddest things I have ever heard in US history.
What's happening to Nasa recently lets me extremely sad. I've been a Space Exploration lover since I was a child. I'm 26 and I can't imagine a future where we won't search for new discoveries and answers from the Universe. I just can't think of that.
I still remember when Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. I was 9 years old and I was amazed by what the Universe is capable of. Then I wanted to know more about Jupiter, and in the following year, Galileo was there. What now? This cannot end.
I understand the argument that we need to invest in problems down here on Earth. BUT, there is more to life than just sustaining it. We need some kind of inspiration that makes life worth living.
aroblesCG 4 weeks ago
i thought that was Kermit talking
windowboy 1 month ago
Tyson for President
yosymitiesam1 1 month ago 3
Anyone know what the music is?
benjaminluckinbill07 2 months ago
NASA is the most important agency in the world, the problem is, the majority of people are too thick to even think about it never even realise it. The same people who take for granted the signal on their mobile phone for example, are the people who say "well why are we going up there when there is suffering down here?"
DAVROSS44 2 months ago
If I lived in the USA I'd prefer $1 of my $1 to go to places like NASA. Science is universal and every nation and everybody in those nation should support things like NASA because of what it stands for. One day it will benefit the Human Race as a whole and we'll look back at NASA and we'll be thankful we did spend money on it and programmes like it. Our future is in Space and on other worlds and we should strive for it because we have the power too.
Astrophysicsist 2 months ago
@Astrophysicsist totally agree mate.
DAVROSS44 2 months ago
Papyrus?? really??
scorpion101 2 months ago
"Earth is the cradle of mankind. But, man cannot live in the cradle forever." Dr. Arthur C. Clarke
"In space, it's raining soup. And we're too stupid to get a bucket..." Carl Sagan
AnAstroNutt 3 months ago 2
@AnAstroNutt : Way over rated, the propaganda that science will someday terraform planets or move stars and galaxies like they were bolders is naive. Think about; it took billions of years for life to appear on earth, billions of years from energy sources on earth and the sun to build the compounds for a breathable atmosphere and life. Do you know how much energy that is? Trying to terraform a planet within a 100 years the radiation generated from the energy created would poison that planet!
sirriNfrank 3 months ago
@AnAstroNutt: Star Trek like spaceships not going to happen! The energy for a ship to reach the speed of light are immense, also specks of dust when colliding with the ship at such speeds would have the equivalent reaction of an atomic bomb!
The future of the exploration of interstellar space will be from very large space telescopes, where actually seeing earth size planets will be possible. Any spaceships making a journey to such planets will be the size of a bumble bee!
sirriNfrank 3 months ago
we NEED private companies going into space to charter the way for the future!! They can get us there if there can be a profit made somehow- like charging more people to take them into orbit, etc...
Or else the government should stop spending a trillion dollars a year on their OVERSEAS spending and send it to NASA :)
df61660a 3 months ago
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TheUsmc29 4 months ago
Lets evolve
fatpeoplemotivation 4 months ago
We have to help NASA now... Push them back to space. Volunteer to help them, Become the new heroes of Space. We can't sit here, We can't just rot away and watch everyone flying off into the unknown!
We must fuckin' go beyond the stars we see in the night. We must see how we can go and show people how dreams are made.
Lepper36 4 months ago
The cold war is want drove the space race, unfortunately that paranoia while motivating new frontiers it did so in way that didn't look at long term solutions. For instance: why should the U.S. carry the burden to embark on missions to the moon? Why not invite the rest of the free world to join in and share the costs? The amount of wasted spending for petty tools, like $800 wrenches and $1200 hammers ran rapid during the cold war era. NASA is proof that socialism doesn't work...
sirriNfrank 5 months ago
@sirriNfrank : The problem is not socialism, it is capitalism. Rampant, greedy capitilism, which is not held accountable for its actions. Capitalism that can steal trillions of dollars from American homeowners, and not spend a day in jail, but oh no! instead get billions of dollars of the taxpayer's money because "they're too big to fail."
AnAstroNutt 3 months ago
@AnAstroNutt: Agreed that bankers should have been held accountable for their negligence, but they didn't steal any money from American home owners. Also the choice of government leaders that home owners have to suffer while banks get bailed out is unconscionable! But here again is big brother solving our problems, yet another example that socialism doesn't work. Rome fell because of the incompetence of its leaders...
sirriNfrank 3 months ago
NASA needs to keep pushing..
bk2life 5 months ago
For those of you who consider Tyson's call to dream, that's precisely what it is. By the comments you're leaving about the "nonsense" and heroes and the future, it's obvious living in this country surrounded by instant gratification and pretty pictures and sounds has dampened your capacity to dream as well. That part I pity.
Coldannon 5 months ago 12
A bit pathetic video but I fully agree with Neil. He should have been the first US black president, not the clown you have now.
oldschoolWN 6 months ago
Half a penny on the dollar... You can have several pennies on my dollar NASA
tweeq 6 months ago
ok, Dr. niel. you win this round. im in undergrad to beome an archaeologist but, ill speack for you. -tell you that truth... ive been for a while
seamonkey2010 6 months ago
21 people are afraid of hights
AlexTomFB 6 months ago
FUCKING PAPYRUS
djayuh 6 months ago
I'm with you Neil! Time to get to work.
aroblesCG 6 months ago
@aroblesCG "Lets Rock" we can make this Great Again.
Hungrystudent101 6 months ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson, a real American leader.
roschler 6 months ago
@100silverpizza You're an incredibly ignorant child.
eope111 6 months ago
Well...i don't mind the russians claiming the red planet their own. :D
Porly62 6 months ago
I don't know. I fully support ongoing NASA projects, but this sounds like it's targeting the wrong part. It's amorphous ephemeral nonsense about "heroes" and "the future" when he should be arguing for the actual tangible physical, technological, and political benefits NASA's work creates.
GuanoLad 6 months ago
"How Much Would You Pay For The Universe?"
"I'd pay about tree-fity"
Ruffhouse789 6 months ago 2
private corporations are going to end up colonizing space, which is extremely sad. governments only seek short term band aids. they cease to dream.
azmexican 6 months ago
Oh cmon, are you kidding me? I am into tech and science and all, but there are so many people suffering on this planet,... How much would you pay FOR PEACE
softilol 6 months ago
@softilol Most of the problems in this world stem from bad politics not lack of money. Africa is a prime and very unfortunate example. If you donate a dollar to help a starving child in Sub-Saharan Africa that child will only ever see $0.30. However the governments that keep the people living in poverty, will get about $0.40 - $0.50 through duties they charge on incoming foreign aid, but people keep throwing money at the problem as though what hasn't worked for years will suddenly work today.
btdobie 6 months ago
@btdobie its not about giving them money its about teaching them and making houses, hospitals, . . .
i am sure you know the story about a man who bought a fish but then he wanted to learn how to catch one. . .
softilol 6 months ago
Neil de Grasse Tyson is an Alumni of SUNY @ Buffalo.....MY alma Mater. I am proud to say that and I wish every time someone calls me a racist because I believe Oblama is a freaking joke, they could see that I see this man for what he is a VISIONARY - not a man, or a black man. I am a 32 year veteran of human space flight and I am PROUD of that. I am ashamed of my president, his whack-job science advisor, John Holgren, the 2-star general administrator, and America for letting all this happen.
MrHansAryan 6 months ago
Guys, I am about to send in a long rant letter the president HIMSELF on why he should save NASA. It includes the following:
1. NASA needs to be revived
2. It will help imagination
3. It will make jobs
4. It will boost America's vision
5. We need to go back to the moon by the end of the decade.
6. Mining on the moon will severely help the economy.
Guys, is there ANYTHING I am missing?
NickH403 6 months ago
''Poor'' Nasa -_-
memen51 7 months ago
No single achievement will be more impressive than to land a man on the Moon.
That was four decades ago, no it's time to go to Mars!
GalacticApple 7 months ago 14
Welcome back to the stone age everyone. If you thought this country was lacking in vision you can confirm that by watching our manned space program being dismantled. I guess it shouldn't come as a great surprise since we're only now realizing that funding this country on borrowed money might not be the best way to go...
BradiKal61 7 months ago 3
This Video is amazing!
Ollied 7 months ago
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Ollied 7 months ago
Email this to your Congress Men and Women people! They need to hear this.
Bluecarpet001 7 months ago
Those who say that NASAs budget could be sent to Africa are fucking morons. There's no lack of funds. NASAs budget ranged from 0.5% to 1% since the '70s and peaked at 4% under the Apollo program. Imagine what NASA could do with about 5%, let alone developped nations altogether, as I'm not even American. Let the shit countries sort out their own affairs and concentrate on technology to improve the quality of life of your citizens and not of fucking ungrateful arabs.
TheMarksmenCat 7 months ago 3
Last year I walked into the Houston Parks & Rec. building to rent a picnic area. I saw it was a NASA building. U.S. spends all this money on defense, well as a former soldier I call tell you I didn't see any of it. I did see Soldiers on welfare,old equipment, 1999 we saw computers with Windows operating systems. Its time to envision a strong America but we have too much to lose. Till the day the rich are few and the poor are too many then we'll see the fire in the eyes of Americans again.
justd3rd 7 months ago
19 people don't want the universe no matter how cheap it is.
devothj 7 months ago
IS THAT PAPYRUS FONT UAHAAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNGGG
MMLynk 7 months ago
"Low Earth orbyt is to boldly go where hundreds have gone before".
And thus NASA shall be refounded into Starfleet...
mikiroony 7 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
even if it's just "a half a penny on a dollar" wouldn't it be better to give it to the poor in africa?
SubMeSub 7 months ago
@SubMeSub
The poor in Africa need more then half a penny on a dollar. Cut away just 10% of the global military spending which is over 2 trillion dollars per year, and I think we can get that covered.
AlexandruUrsachi 7 months ago
he makes a great argument for investing in technology generally, but not really for investing in NASA specifically.
maxcbookman 7 months ago
This is what you get when you kill Pluto
CraigInCT 7 months ago
A half a penny on a dollar - Ok - Ummm How many dollars is that from???
CraigInCT 7 months ago
@CraigInCT
A hell of a lot less than the army spending.
Zvesda 7 months ago
@Zvesda No doubt about that. The army spends more on air conditioning than the total NASA budget. I just thought his stat was empty the math equation wasn't complete
CraigInCT 7 months ago
When I grow up, I want to kick this guys ass for being a whiney little bitch. We all know the military is going to pick up where NASA left off since we will soon have to weaponize our shuttles to fend off China from tampering with our satellites.
jbishhh 7 months ago
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brianktimmons 7 months ago
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jbishhh 7 months ago
NASA is old news. CNSA is the future.
BluTrollPro 7 months ago
@BluTrollPro Sadly... I think your right
brianktimmons 7 months ago
FUCK the welfare spending, let em get a job.
FUCK the military spending, let em find something else to do.
FUCK the homeland security spending, because the citizens should be the country's security. (You cannot invade the mainland America, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass - Isoroku Yamamoto.)
ALL of that money should EXCLUSIVELY go to NASA.
When economic times are good, there should be a mandatory tax of 5% of all incomes so they may go to NASA.
The Space age never ends.
Zvesda 7 months ago
HOW COME THERE NOT FLOATING....ARENT THEY IN SPACE
MrSuperSwiggy 7 months ago
That is a Lie sir So many people are still dreaming about tomorrow at least i know i am
Alan296525 7 months ago
EVERY DAMN PENNY is worth the space program, and more! Man I resent those small minds.. Good luck with your happy happy planet when a rock the size of Mount Everest comes crashing down, and you don't have an answer ready.
Mueiwark 7 months ago
This video should have a million likes, C'mon world, lets explore space.
Imakeplanesboom 7 months ago 21
@Imakeplanesboom YES!
Sweetmkp1 7 months ago
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gaoasiadragon 4 months ago
@gaoasiadragon Are YOU kidding?
Imakeplanesboom 4 months ago
@Imakeplanesboom I probably didn't express myself properly. I'm not against space exploration. I just doubt that the international community (the "world") will do this through cooperation rather than competition. See, they are weaponizing space...
gaoasiadragon 4 months ago
A ******* MEN!!!!!!!
JMChladek 7 months ago
The entire universe? Eh, about tree fiddy.
Anderasio 7 months ago
I Want go to the NASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :D
Wow Great Vid!
Tito23p 7 months ago
Well said !!!
macva 7 months ago
If only there were more people like Neil deGrasse Tyson... He is truly inspirational.
avpyo 7 months ago
This man is a genius. "Tyson for President" 2012.
chaosheat420 7 months ago
His voice is maybe the most inspirational voice ever!!!
tomwejw 7 months ago
The END of NASA ... Charles Bolden at the KSC after the Shuttle retirement ... w w w . ghostnasa . c o m /posts2/075endofnasa . h t m l
gaetanomarano 7 months ago
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iPad2DeviOs5Jail 7 months ago
the god bless sign ruined this video
DarklyBishop 7 months ago
Fuck spending money on stem cell research and other stuff!
First let's find a another planet that is inhabitable for us then we can go about spending our money on learning how to live forever!
Honestly! Think about it, the worlds population is multiplying in its growth so there is soon to be not enough space! If we waste money on living longer that rate of multiplication continually grows!
Apparently the amount of kids someone will have can almost be seen beforehand if you know those persons IQ.
pokeshmon 7 months ago
This is sad in so many ways :(
ferrarixxz 7 months ago
As wonderful as all this sounds, let's face reality. USA is no longer the superpower it once was, and the nearly 700 billion in military spending seems like a desperate attempt to keep its influence around the world.
It seems more important at the moment to address other issues, and what is dreaming going to do for us in a practical situation? Even if NASA gets back the necessary funding for it's operations, it still won't change the fact our country's economy is down in the drain.
Vladswell 7 months ago
RIP NASA
CDvideowatcher 7 months ago
work first Fun and rockets later
sirnicholson 7 months ago
lol
sirnicholson 7 months ago
Fine...I'll bite. To everyone complaining about the "God Bless America" crap, you do realize Tyson is criticizing America right? Am I expecting too much to think that it should be blatantly obvious to anyone who watches this?
ccguy7890 7 months ago
Man is a terrestrial being, and can only go to terrestrial worlds that are not too hot - therefore, in the Solar System, only the Moon, Mars and perhaps a very rocky moons of the outer planets. And going to other star systems is out of the question as well since even a system that could get on the order of the speed of light would take 10 years as a round trip. We should set up an array of telescopes on the far side of the Moon so that we can do deep space exploration there.
swampwiz 7 months ago
I would love to know what kind of ignorant, visionless person gives this a thumbs down...
Auturgist 7 months ago 6
You cant pay for the universe BITCH!!!
MrJama1ca 7 months ago
I hate it when Americans show and say only God Bless America why not every one?
konohai87 7 months ago
@konohai87 This is a video about NASA. NASA is an american agency.
sexyloser 7 months ago
@konohai87 Because being a citizen of america means you love and support your nation above all others,its just patriotism.
koutaman112 7 months ago
Another thing is NASA creates technology for other areas such as medical, nuclear science...I cant tell you how much equiment i work with that the technology came from NASA. I dont understand why there hasnt been a moon base where you can build a space craft as big as you want it and you dont have to fight the earths gravity to make it to orbit. There you can develope and experiement with false gravity.
ufailpwn 7 months ago
We need an Imagineer on this. A Walt Disney of space to show us what we are reaching for.
shampoovta 7 months ago
Innovation is like a garden hose. If there is no water pressure, then no matter how much water is available, nothing will ever come out of the hose.
In support of Manned Space Flight, NASA and NASA's subcontractors have invented hundreds of thousands of things that we all use every single day. We can all pretend that NASA will continue make our country a scientific leader in the world, but with no mission, with no goal, with nothing driving us to be the best, we'll only ever get a trickle.
TileEngineer 7 months ago
Tyson for president of the universe!!! Such an inspiring person.
bavarianwerks 7 months ago 8
Inspirational Tyson!
sachibbsr 7 months ago
Well done beuatiful speech... I was thinking about this yesterday well sorta I thought imagine a World in where we had peace between all nations, Imagine how much money we could put into are space program and imgaine how advance we would be by now. unfournatly there will all ways be war that humanity for you. Also God bless America, Russia and Japan you guys have done a lot for space I wish my tiny Island (Britain) would do more for space hopefully one day we get our own spacecraft.
SupernaturalGifts777 7 months ago
To infinity and beyond!
phampants 7 months ago
i support NASA :3
SporeFan01234 7 months ago
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postalex 7 months ago
But also see the video where he explains the space shuttle (search for "shuttle diplomacy and neil degrasse tyson")
postalex 7 months ago
There is no way this is 1080 resolution
restlessdesign 7 months ago
AMAZING! We need to bring back the excitement our nation had when we went to the moon!! GO NASA!!!!!
icomputered 7 months ago 2
Space Core's best buddy.
MisterDoctorNerd 7 months ago 2
Neil deGrasse Tyson for president
LAZYN8TE 7 months ago 94
@LAZYN8TE Neil deGrasse Tyson for emperor of mankind.
Barbaroossa 6 months ago
@LAZYN8TE He's way to smart for that job.
btdobie 6 months ago
FACT: Last year the army spent more on air conditioning than NASA's budget
xLDH1109x 7 months ago 59
@xLDH1109x Saw that article too. Probably more money than the entire global space budget put together.
matteumayo 7 months ago
@matteumayo If NASA didn't have to worry about money we would already people on Mars.
xLDH1109x 7 months ago
Space. Space. Wanna go to space. Space. Hey lady, let's go to space. Where do we need to go? Space. Space. I'm the best at space.
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!
KingZeal 7 months ago 6
Gizmodo put it best. "[It] makes me want to crotchpunch any moron who whines every time a probe reaches a distant planet, a telescope is deployed or a rocket is launched."
Antenox 7 months ago 2
The same argument can be maded for CAPITALISM
Entropy56 7 months ago
Yes there are a ton of problems down here on earth. There's a place for down-to-earth practical science and aid and work that helps people survive and begin to thrive. That type of work is just as under-funded as NASA except when it very occasionally makes the evening news instead of the latest scandal-gate. Big obvious science like NASA is inspiring even if it doesn't directly feed the hungry. There's a place for that, too. Neither is expensive at all compared to government budgets.
aeiluindae 7 months ago 2
Sadly the world's billions in abject poverty can only dream of a tomorrow of pain and hunger.
JakeRado 7 months ago
@JakeRado "teach them to fish, so they may feed themselves"
UKORASS 7 months ago
The black Carl Sagan right here, I was almost moved to tears, preach on!
TheMusketITuckedIt 7 months ago
Why does an imaginary being get any credit or acknowledgment from scientifically minded types?
If we had followed the dictates of this imaginary overlord to ANY degree, we NEVER would have left Earth's surface AT ALL.
And yet, these people usually find it prudent to honor this mythological being at every turn, and thank him for every major accomplishment.
Here's a novel idea, how 'bout thanking all the REAL people involved and ONLY them - instead of deferring some percentage to Zeus (er, God).
steveb0503 7 months ago 3
How the fuck can you dislike this?
aomega6 7 months ago 3
@aomega6 darned tea-partiers
wearedoctor 7 months ago 2
@wearedoctor explain?
koutaman112 7 months ago
@koutaman112 nah.
wearedoctor 6 months ago
@aomega6 Well I get a little sick of the nationalist crap when it comes to ventures into space. There is no america above the earth and the astronauts are humans before anything else, so why talk about how NASA is an american achievement? So what if the hadron collider was built in a country outside america, it benefits all of humanity as does space travel.
whitezombie93 7 months ago 3
The United States of America has to get its problems sorted out. We are going to be passed by other countries if we don't solve our own problems and get the country out of debt.
klwibaddie 7 months ago
dream makes human flies
darkdevil517 7 months ago 2
thank you for putting this speech to some awesome video its great
1Gaumer 7 months ago
I totally agree with everything Neil has to say. However, India and China are dreaming about tomorrow. America plans to buy their crap.
ColtonDean 7 months ago
This was very moving :)
emilybot 7 months ago
The minute the video started and i saw that ''God bless America'' sign.. i was like...ok? Selfish much? And i felt leftout.. :( Thus making me no longer interested in this vid. Bye
kizanko 7 months ago 2
@kizanko ..............
iRendipro 7 months ago
@iRendipro ........derp
kizanko 7 months ago
@kizanko Force your government to contribute more to ESA, whenever you get the opportunity try to force the issue on to the politicians.
Ashitaka255 7 months ago
@kizanko
Yeah. Because even though there are douche religious people, there cannot possibly be religious people working in science and tech? Seriously, this shit is no better than the fundamental principles of backwards peoples from any view point. America is about freedom...except for those people who have beliefs. You are a part of the problem.
CosmicQuandary 7 months ago
@CosmicQuandary
I don't understand what u are reffering to when it comes to my comment. Religious or not we all should do what we want as long as your not hurting anybody. We all are human and we should stop putting each other in categories and start pointing fingers. Just live your lofe peacefully and so will I. :) I was clearly joking with my comment. Sorry if it offended you. I'm muslim btw and have no trouble with science at all! I even love it. :)
kizanko 7 months ago
@kizanko
I'm sorry for the late reply, I never got a notification. Sounds like we may have just had a misunderstanding. Thanks for the reply. :)
CosmicQuandary 1 month ago
Amen!
SmartyAlec310 7 months ago
too bad america cares more about killing people instead of exploring space
thatdutchguy89 7 months ago
space?SPACEi wanna go space i wanna go to space space space spaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccce space space i wonder if its hots in space space space space space space spacE SPACE SPACE SPACE space...............space..........space.............SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCEEEE
fromstart2finish 7 months ago 4
Wait!!!!! we are not going to the moon anymore, maybe one day..but let's work on some tech that might enable that someday!!!!, how did they go to the moon in the first place then?
You know,can't we just solve our problems on earth first!
926302 7 months ago
@926302 NASA has solved more problems on Earth from research for space travel than you know.
Dionysus187 7 months ago
.75 i need some money to buy videogames :D
reivax079 7 months ago
What really upsets me is how close we actually are to colonizing spaceby means of orbital space stations and actually mining meteors and asteroids and noone really wants to consider how ridiculously profitable this would be. A lot of meteors are made up almost entirely out of one element. One rather large meteor worth of any metal we use shipped down to earth would completely level the global market for that metal... It'd be the equivalent of years worth of mining under earth's surface.
wishcraft4u2 7 months ago 3
Ssssssspppaaaaaaaacceeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TeheRJ 7 months ago
3 people definitely misclicked.
mts2457 7 months ago
Imagine if America took its military budget and swapped it with the NASA budget. They'd probably be operating on star bases around Saturn by now.
youtubasoarus 7 months ago
@youtubasoarus its unlikely we would ever send humans that far, more likely that we would send probs and robots
eLLriDe420 7 months ago
@eLLriDe420 -Don't let your thinking be so meek. You must think hundreds of years down the road. Generations of explorers expanding in all directions of the universe. All up for discovery and on into infinity.
youtubasoarus 7 months ago
@youtubasoarus yes, bases around saturn, but lol probably russian owned lol. since it is military that kept america powerful
dezignateddriva 7 months ago
how much would you pay for the universe?
aricola84 7 months ago
Teachers are more likely to inspire students to excel than a space program. NASA's billions would be better spent on quality teachers and schools!
sklineline 7 months ago
if only we made peace with all the countries and stop the war and fix this damn country!!
ineedmoney231 7 months ago
this guy is so smart he cant balance a checkbook.
leonphelps123 7 months ago
WAit for Russia and China to catch up in space technology and steal their technology, this way u save alot of money and give China a taste of their own medicine, see how they like it when US steals their technology.
superphi 7 months ago
half a penny on a dollar is 50 billion isn't it? that is alot of money
superphi 7 months ago
@superphi
It's more like a bit less than 2 tenths of a penny. They get a bit under $20 billion.
meatwadgunit 7 months ago
@superphi
It's about 0.50% percent of everything. Got that penny stuff mixed up
meatwadgunit 7 months ago
@superphi 18 billion still less than the military spends on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan
andyman8662 7 months ago
@superphi NASA's current budget is about $19 billion. Not much when you consider everything NASA does. However, recent proposed House legislation propose a cut to about $16 billion.
andrewwski 7 months ago
I think NASA has achieved more accomplishment per dollar than all of military research departement combined per dollar. Hell, I'm not even american!
guicapone2 7 months ago 2
@guicapone2
Military: 20 billion - Air Conditioning
NASA:19 Billion - Space Shuttles, Satellites, ISS maintenance, Rovers, ground-breaking tech, etc.
zzzIdividedbyzerozzz 7 months ago 7
@zzzIdividedbyzerozzz You have your military budget off by a factor of 30.
Look up "United States Military Budget 2010" on google.
The U.S. spent $685.1 billion on military funding in 2010. That does not include military contracting which raises the figure over $1 trillion.
sexyloser 7 months ago
How can you NOT want to know about space..its one badass motherfucker..Ill goto Mars, lets go!
MrRiggyRiggs 7 months ago 3
America would rather build bombs to kill people rather then explore. Would rather build bombs then educate our youth. Would rather build bombs then feed the hungry. Seems the US gov't would rather build bombs and weapons then do the right thing.
This is one of the saddest things I have ever heard in US history.
AirVengeance318 7 months ago 4
@AirVengeance318
US foreign aid to developing countries:$23.5 billion
Nasa spending: 18.724 billion
koutaman112 7 months ago
What's happening to Nasa recently lets me extremely sad. I've been a Space Exploration lover since I was a child. I'm 26 and I can't imagine a future where we won't search for new discoveries and answers from the Universe. I just can't think of that.
I still remember when Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. I was 9 years old and I was amazed by what the Universe is capable of. Then I wanted to know more about Jupiter, and in the following year, Galileo was there. What now? This cannot end.
InsaneMetal 7 months ago
It´s not only America that needs Nasa , the world needs Nasa.
Jacktoga 7 months ago 27
@Jacktoga I'm Argentine, I'm an American too but I was not born in USA
BIPiane 7 months ago
Needs less religious people.
Zhylo 7 months ago 4