For those that only consider this world and their temporary place in it yes, cutting funding to NASA is a catastrophe. If this is all you have, you're going to fight tooth and nail for your 'tomorrow'.
I dunno why the stopped dreaming line is getting so much comparative attention, the rest of the video is where I think he really kills it... But either way kudos to him
It's sad that Americans treat every launch of the space shuttle like it's so routine and nothing special. The average person couldn't imagine how it's such a massive undertaking each time, and all the knowledge that has gone into developing the space program.
I am going to say something Controversial to counteract Dr. Tyson who I admire. Love it or hate it, the Space Program was a pissing contest with the Soviets. It was what motivated the Space Race entirely. In addition, it was too expensive. In fact, JFK wanted a joint mission with the Soviets but Kruschev spurned him. Once we got to the moon first and after the Cold War, there was no reason to go to space. It's sad but true.
@yerk3 I'm not saying that there isn't a reason to expand our knowledge. I am just saying that the reason why we did it in the 60s was not to expand our knowledge of the Universe. That was a great side effect but the real reason was to counteract the Soviets. In addition, we inserted a disproportionate amount of money in the space program because of that in a way never seen before. It would be impossible to replicate it again.
Tyson makes a good point about no scientists in congress. Well Neil, RUN! it's not that voters wouldn't vote for them--Lord knows we are all looking for some serious change in congress. The problem is we can't get quality people to run. Probably because it's such a madhouse, and voters have wildly unreasonable expectations. I sometimes wonder if we would be better with a government run by group of scientists, chosen by lot rather than election, and their decisions would be binding and final.
I think NASA realized after the 1970's that they could send up unmanned space craft and probes that were more cost effective, and also performed many of the same tasks that humans would perform. The rover on Mars was pretty amazing if I remember correctly. With that being said it's quite a shame that our space program seems to have digressed over the past quarter century.
preach it rev?!!!! leave it to an american white man to belittle dreams so their eternal wheel of self delusionment can continue to turn on its perrenial rusty hinges. sqeeeeeek squeeeeerch...look at ME!!! Not at HIM!!!! atme at me at meeeee!
It took us less than 10 years to reach the moon, and since then we have spent 39 years lanquishing in low-earth orbit. At the pace we were going, we should have sent the first people to Mars by the 80's. What the heck happened? How did we go from a country passionate about exploring space, to one content barely touching the edge, to now one that doesn't even go at all anymore?
@sandrella01 We got greedy. Dr. Tyson says it, in a way, when he talks about our focus on the next quarter -- that' quarterly profit results are what matters most.
Scream louder Tyson because we don't have enough people making a fuss about all of this. I was saying this before I ever heard Tyson say it, wtf is wrong with people?!!! They'll put in a few million here & a few million there...all of it adding up to a multi-billion-dollar lump of shit that's a bigger waste of time than talking to one of those people who thinks Jesus is about to make his 2nd coming. WTF! We need a new generation of scientists! The coolest shit in this universe is NOT on Earth.
@dmougianis If people are willing to vote to make it mandatory to give their money to various causes (building roads, etc.), why do you seem to think that people wouldn't want to give their money to various causes?
@gorgolyt Did the things I listed get done with voluntary giving? LIke it or not, you live in a society, a community. And as a community we decide there are certain things that the majority decides are a common good that will never happen if those things are left up to individual donation.
If you hate this that much - Somalia awaits you. They have no taxes whatsover. Have a good trip.
@dmougianis Congratulations on not answering my question, and then another childishly stupid fallacy.
People vote to force the state give them money to various causes. Therefore, they want to give money to the causes, by their own volition. Therefore, if not taxed, they would agree to donate.
Please don't reply again until you actually have a response.
@gorgolyt "Therefore, if not taxed, they would agree to donate."
They have these books, where they wrote down what happened in the past. You might have heard of them. They are called "history books". Perhaps you could find one of these books and tell me when what you've written above has ever happened.
I know you would LIKE for the above to be true. Little girls would also like to wake up one morning and have a pink pony. Both have equal chances of occurring.
@dmougianis ...I think you should seriously look at your reply and 1. question why you had to resort to childish ad hominems and 2. question why you had to make ridiculous straw men instead of proper arguments.
@gorgolyt Because most people give a larg amount of money to the government in the form of taxes and they are missusing it, so i'd rather that they use the money they already get in a better way.
@spaarky13 If only they were both abolished and people spent money researching technologies that will actually benefit the human race, such as cheap renewable solutions for developing countries, biotech for nutrition, etcetera.
@gorgolyt All science ends up benefiting humanity in the long run. To say that a science like astronomy or astrophysics can't benefit humanity just because you can't seen an immediate benefit to yourself is just short-sighted.
@yerk3 please try to make sense. it's debatable whether going to the moon has helped humanity in any way, but that wasn't the issue in the first place. the issue is that we have finite resources and have to decide what to do with them, and we should favour putting them into research that is desperately needed (into renewable energy, providing food and water to millions of deprived countries) rather than that which isn't.
@gorgolyt You're absolutely right. But answer this question truthfully: knowing that the defense takes 59% of the whole budget, whereas NASA doesn't even get to the double digits, which one are you more willing to cut? I'd argue that urgent research, meaning research that's going to be fruitful in the short run, is needed, but so is pure research, which we know is going to be fruitful in the long run. Cutting one for the other, when you have HUGE room elsewhere, is just poor resource management.
@Giby86 well i don't live in the US so your military budget will always look absolutely ridiculous. but 10% or more of state taxes going to space exploration? that would also be extremely disproportionate. i think there's a tendency for americans to confuse science in general with astronomy.
@gorgolyt I'm not american either. Does it matter? Anyway, I'm not getting into how much spending would be appropriate. But since you said it's an issue of resource management, and I agree completely, what I'm interested in arguing is that a good management would be cutting those areas where the big numbers are, not those which are already struggling as it is. Do you realize that 1% of the military budget equals the entire NASA budget? Why not cut 1% to that and effectively double NASA funds?
Oh, and also, do you know how high was the space exploration spending in the 60s, when NASA was flooded with money? 2 to 4.5% of the federal budget. And that brought us to the Moon. Don't you feel something if you think of what we could do if we had that 10% you think is "extremely disproportionate"? Expecially when it would mean having "only" 50% of the budget in defense instead of 60%?
@Giby86 again like i say, because NASA does not equal science. i would put that 1% into energy research (fusion, for instance, or battery tech to make electric cars viable, or many many other things). or of course biology and stem cell research or HIV research or alternative nutrition research etc. etc. etc.
@gorgolyt Ok, good thinking. But when that's done, what about taking another 1% and put it into NASA? What's the harm? It's not that a country that spends, say, 57% on defense is significantly less safe than a country that spends 59%, right? And besides, you can't forsee what uses will be make tomorrow of a research done today. You can't even forsee what other researches will be concievable tomorrow thanks to a research done today. It's either seeing science, as a whole, as a priority or not.
@gorgolyt NASA is science. All science eventually benefits humanity. Just because you can't see the immediate benefit in the short term, doesn't mean that there is no benefit. This is the kind of thinking that fuels anti-intellectualism.
@yerk3 'All science eventually benefits humanity'; oh okay, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons research eventually benefits us, does it?
Your kind of sloppy, dogmatic, dichotomising thinking is what fuels anti-intellectualism. Space research is yet to benefit humanity. We could put all of that money into energy, food, and disease research, and get tangible benefits NOW for people who are in dire need NOW. We have finite resources, so we need to decide how best to use them.
@JLIV461 certainly it hasn't benefited humanity as much as spending the money directly on research into technologies useful to humanity would have been.
@yerk3@yerk3 I understand that but in the same degree, we never did it to expand our knowledge of the universe. It was a pure foreign policy. I hate to say it but that was the case. In fact, Kennedy was freaking out when he saw the costs. Was it a great adventure? Yes. But the whole thing was an extension of containment. I like Space, but in the same token, when we have a budget deficit we will have to make some painful cuts.
All the top politicians in China are Engineers/scientist... Hu Jin Tao, Hydraulic engineer... Jiang Zemin Electrical engineer.... Wen JiaoBao, Geologist...
Tyson was off with his math on the size of a trillion, stacked one dollar bills when he said it could go to moon and back. $1= .003" inch.
1 Trillion of those multiplies 0.003 X 1 + 12 zeroes or (3 x 10 to the 9th power inches/ 12)/5280 = 47.348MI, less than 1/5 the distance to the moon still huge stack but not accurate.
This seems like an imperfection in our legal system but it was addressed by the founding fathers and the constitution with the right of a jury to completely ignore the law and return a verdict they feel is "right" regardless of how the law reads. It's called jury nullification.
@BURNINATOR8 Obama isn't really the problem right now. The problem is congress. All they care about is that they get a pay check and they argue against something because their party says so.
Neil should've been the 1st black president.. not Obama. We need a leader, not a politician, that has a vision, superior intelligence, and that can inspire people.
@DankManBearPig Problem is, I don't think he'd really want to.
It's an annoying paradox, really. The people who should be politicians don't want to be, and the people who want to be politicians are exactly the people who shouldn't be.
I think to hold office you must have at least a bachelors degree Major in Law and Business and a minor in a respected Art and/or Science and/or Engineering. Philosophy may be an excused minor. Being an athlete may bump up your chances as well. We shouldn't settle for less in our leaders.
Dr Neil is a man out of his time, hes more like a philosopher with good intentions (compassionate) than hes a scientist. How come people that people pay more attention to Charlie Sheen than this man? Or even Glen Beck'
Dr Neil is a man out of his time, hes more like a philosopher with good intentions (compassionate) than hes a scientist. How come people that people pay more attention to Charlie Sheen than this man?
Many scientist love America and now that she is dying they realize they are the only people passionate and competent enough to save her. We will see more and more intellectuals running for office as the country gets worse off. Get ready for an enlightenment America.
I desperately hope you are right but it may well be too little too late. How I'd love to see a scientific coup (as opposed to the more usual military coup) of our government!
@agehanokimi Isn't anti immigration growing in Scandinavian countries? I would love to move to one but that growing trend is discouraging me. Stay in America where anti science is growing or move to country that doesn't have that problem but hard for immigrants to fit in. I don't know, I'm just an outsider looking in. You would know more about that than I.
@HybridD91 I don't know much about the subject, but anti-immigration there is probably mostly just related to people who aren't as optimum immigrants... like ones with poor English/native language skills, and don't have much education or working prospect. Even muslim/christian might be a factor, but considering the liberal views, probably not.
I don't know that's what it is for sure, but that's how I think it would be. If you are a good candidate to immigrate there, they will still let you in.
@luisdez81 -- I typed it in online. I found a site that I had a lot of ads I had to close, but nothing serious. Just look. You'll find it. It was great.
@487shawn First, no you haven't. Second, it makes no sense because the fundamental function of the Congress is to make laws. To disqualify a person for holding a law degree is ridiculous. There are many different types of law that branches into all aspects of "life." You have patent and copyright lawyers who specialize in a field of science besides law. You have business lawyers who study business on top of law. Conflicts of interest exists with the individual, not their profession.
@shansyn yes and they should have been consultans and not members of the congress! if you study how they manipulated the laws to suit whatever desires they wanted outside of the people's intrests at the time you will see lawyer need to be at the bottom of the ocean, or at least aborted at birth!
@487shawn I take serious insult to those last few claims. To generalize that all lawyers deserve to be aborted is ignorant and distasteful. What it demonstrates to me and any sensible individual who reads your comments is that you can't uphold an intellectual conversation without advocating a discrimination based on a profession. Serves me right for engaging in a conversation on youtube. Cheers. Ignorance is universal.
@shansyn how about post abortion? or at least occupational castration? how about people who get caught up in the intricacies of an obscure concept at the expense of the overall truth of the matter at hand? how about like the man says its all about the argument and not about progressing? yes the very nature of what it takes to be a lawyer disqualifies them from holding office in the public realm which need to progress not get bogged down in argumentive process about whos right!
@487shawn So being a current law student according to you I should have been aborted or be castrated or whatever while punishment your pathetic soul can conjure. But let me go beyond you petulant hatred. You claim that lawyers are only concerned about the argument and not the progression. I got news for you: your current legal system is designed that way so don't hold the lawyer of a defendant accountable. Everybody, regardless of their crime has the right to an attorney and is deemed
Respond to this video... 2: innocent until proven guilty. You then go on to claim that the nature of a lawyer should disqualify them from office? Well who do you propose take their place? Do you even know how politics works and how laws are made? Better yet we run a democracy: you should not be electing lawyers into office then if you have such an issue with them. Tyson's opinion of law is very one-sided. The reason the constitution of American and many countries exist because :
Respond to this video... 3: The bill was written by those that know the law: lawyers. Politics are argumentative by nature. Opinions will always conflict but rather than relying on wars and violence I would like to imagine that humanity continues to evolve and resolve issues via the pen and not the sword and that is done through a legal system. It seems your issue with lawyers is fickle. Or you seem rather uninformed. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
@shansyn I see what your saying but some of the people who are never mentioned as the building blocks for our consitution were military men, scientist, and farmers.
@shansyn There's a difference, though. These were people with a vision, with legitimate ideas on how to agree with each other and forge forward in founding the country. That can't be said about the politicians of today.
Neil Degrasse Tyson 2016!
dsmelsergmailcom 1 day ago
Who the hell needs pastors when we got Neil? At least he's preaching truth!
ThePhantom135 1 day ago 4
A Scientific Prophet. His base 2 is infinity +1.
Ievolovel 6 days ago
For those that only consider this world and their temporary place in it yes, cutting funding to NASA is a catastrophe. If this is all you have, you're going to fight tooth and nail for your 'tomorrow'.
AshtonPhoto 1 week ago
I can't wait for Cosmos 2.
walmartpimp2 1 week ago
I would seriously vote for Neil Degrasse Tyson to be president if I could.
byelobog3 2 weeks ago 7
Watching videos with Neil Tyson is so addictive!
sebastiansz 3 weeks ago
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson would be the single coolest president EVER.
pepebuckles 1 month ago 2
"I'm screamin' I'm sorry" lol this man is brilliant
Carlsaganguy 1 month ago 2
Mr Tyson,
Please run for something I can vote for you in. Your speaking ability and outlook would be revolutionary in the congress. Please.
monkleto 1 month ago 4
@monkleto Logic and politics... dont mix
daspense 1 month ago
Run for Congree Neil.
australoameribelge03 1 month ago 3
@australoameribelge03
Run for fucking president.
HDaviator 1 month ago
@HDaviator I agree. This guy should run for president.
MrAlexH1991 1 month ago
I suggest Neil Tyson Degrasse run for US Senate in New York!
PrincessTS01 1 month ago 2
I dunno why the stopped dreaming line is getting so much comparative attention, the rest of the video is where I think he really kills it... But either way kudos to him
slipknot95maggot 1 month ago 5
I never stop dreaming because of people like you or Carl Sagan. Thanks Neil
khiladi 1 month ago 6
" I like to dream.. I'm sorry.."
PaintSlinger99 2 months ago
i hate it when politics fucs up science
positronicum97 2 months ago
government of scientists, philosophers and engineers if only it could be true
FIGHTFANNERD3 2 months ago 10
3:11 look at him my god
FIGHTFANNERD3 2 months ago
bill is an idiot
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@FIGHTFANNERD3 I herd u like to suck juicy dicks! That's kinda gay.....
tsleazy4000 2 months ago
It's sad that Americans treat every launch of the space shuttle like it's so routine and nothing special. The average person couldn't imagine how it's such a massive undertaking each time, and all the knowledge that has gone into developing the space program.
sidearmsalpha 2 months ago 41
@sidearmsalpha indeed
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON for ruler can rule my state he'd have my vote
jayou540 2 months ago
GET AT EM, NEIL!!!
NarpytheCrimeDog 2 months ago 2
This guy is amazing!!!
TOTCD 2 months ago
I am going to say something Controversial to counteract Dr. Tyson who I admire. Love it or hate it, the Space Program was a pissing contest with the Soviets. It was what motivated the Space Race entirely. In addition, it was too expensive. In fact, JFK wanted a joint mission with the Soviets but Kruschev spurned him. Once we got to the moon first and after the Cold War, there was no reason to go to space. It's sad but true.
bluesboy25000 2 months ago
@bluesboy25000 Mind you I like Space, but human beings and governments are driven by incentives. Plain and simple.
bluesboy25000 2 months ago
@bluesboy25000 So I suppose there's no reason to expand our knowledge of the universe then.
yerk3 2 months ago
@yerk3 I'm not saying that there isn't a reason to expand our knowledge. I am just saying that the reason why we did it in the 60s was not to expand our knowledge of the Universe. That was a great side effect but the real reason was to counteract the Soviets. In addition, we inserted a disproportionate amount of money in the space program because of that in a way never seen before. It would be impossible to replicate it again.
bluesboy25000 2 months ago
If this man could live forever...
tmarian4 2 months ago
OH PLEASE DON'T LET US GO BACK INTO THE DARK AGES congress! PLEASE
narlycat 2 months ago
For the intro, Neil is an Astrophysicist :D
Mluna792 3 months ago
@Mluna792 technically he's both haha he holds a bachelors in physics then studied astrophysics
soccerforlife02 3 months ago
Tyson makes a good point about no scientists in congress. Well Neil, RUN! it's not that voters wouldn't vote for them--Lord knows we are all looking for some serious change in congress. The problem is we can't get quality people to run. Probably because it's such a madhouse, and voters have wildly unreasonable expectations. I sometimes wonder if we would be better with a government run by group of scientists, chosen by lot rather than election, and their decisions would be binding and final.
DandAinTac 3 months ago
@DandAinTac A government of scientists, philosophers and engineers. One can dream
BruceFnLee 2 months ago
@BruceFnLee indeeed
FIGHTFANNERD3 2 months ago
@DandAinTac I think he will. Somewhere he mentioned that he was thinking about it.
adi87tya 2 months ago
i wish there were teachers like him in colleges...
ovariesniper 3 months ago
@ovariesniper You haven't been to my college then.
Frostbite864 3 months ago
Neil Degrasse Tyson should be voted as the president of the planet.
acidcharon 3 months ago 2
Its a time to scream ;P
Uhmu45 3 months ago
Revolution. Let's change this shit. Credit Unions are safer than these big banks right now. We all need to be aware of how to fight back.
jbeam333 3 months ago
Poetic at the end when the lady say "Well you know uhh"
derman077 3 months ago
"We stopped dreaming."
No wiser or damning words have been spoken.
lohphat 4 months ago 80
@lohphat well, luckily for myself, "we," in this case, does not include to me :)
I'll never stop being creative and ambitious
AlexanderIsaacConan 3 weeks ago
I think NASA realized after the 1970's that they could send up unmanned space craft and probes that were more cost effective, and also performed many of the same tasks that humans would perform. The rover on Mars was pretty amazing if I remember correctly. With that being said it's quite a shame that our space program seems to have digressed over the past quarter century.
smoyer60 4 months ago
I remember watching this guy on TV as a kid. I learned a lot from him.
CHAOSoriginal 4 months ago
We need a Astronaut for the 2016 President
PrincessTS01 4 months ago
preach it rev?!!!! leave it to an american white man to belittle dreams so their eternal wheel of self delusionment can continue to turn on its perrenial rusty hinges. sqeeeeeek squeeeeerch...look at ME!!! Not at HIM!!!! atme at me at meeeee!
MrTracythomas1 4 months ago
It took us less than 10 years to reach the moon, and since then we have spent 39 years lanquishing in low-earth orbit. At the pace we were going, we should have sent the first people to Mars by the 80's. What the heck happened? How did we go from a country passionate about exploring space, to one content barely touching the edge, to now one that doesn't even go at all anymore?
sandrella01 4 months ago
@sandrella01 We got greedy. Dr. Tyson says it, in a way, when he talks about our focus on the next quarter -- that' quarterly profit results are what matters most.
AegisNova 3 months ago
Scream louder Tyson because we don't have enough people making a fuss about all of this. I was saying this before I ever heard Tyson say it, wtf is wrong with people?!!! They'll put in a few million here & a few million there...all of it adding up to a multi-billion-dollar lump of shit that's a bigger waste of time than talking to one of those people who thinks Jesus is about to make his 2nd coming. WTF! We need a new generation of scientists! The coolest shit in this universe is NOT on Earth.
andyrooney12 4 months ago
The fact that I've destroyed your central thesis isn't a "strawman" and the fact that you think so shows how little you understand about economics
dmougianis 5 months ago
If people feel that an inadequate amount of their tax dollars is going to NASA, why don't they just... donate?
Oops, sorry to debunk the entire fallacious argument in a sentence.
gorgolyt 5 months ago
@gorgolyt If you think you ought to have a road to your house so you can get to work, why don't you just build it yourself?
If you think your children shouldn't die when they drink a glass of water, why don't you finance your own personal water treatment plant?
If you think drug dealers shouldn't set up shop across the street from where you live, why don't you hire your own private security force?
The only thing you've "debunked" is the notion that you have more than 2 brain cells.
dmougianis 5 months ago
@dmougianis If people are willing to vote to make it mandatory to give their money to various causes (building roads, etc.), why do you seem to think that people wouldn't want to give their money to various causes?
Back to the drawing board you go.
gorgolyt 5 months ago
@gorgolyt Did the things I listed get done with voluntary giving? LIke it or not, you live in a society, a community. And as a community we decide there are certain things that the majority decides are a common good that will never happen if those things are left up to individual donation.
If you hate this that much - Somalia awaits you. They have no taxes whatsover. Have a good trip.
dmougianis 5 months ago
@dmougianis Congratulations on not answering my question, and then another childishly stupid fallacy.
People vote to force the state give them money to various causes. Therefore, they want to give money to the causes, by their own volition. Therefore, if not taxed, they would agree to donate.
Please don't reply again until you actually have a response.
gorgolyt 5 months ago
@gorgolyt "Therefore, if not taxed, they would agree to donate."
They have these books, where they wrote down what happened in the past. You might have heard of them. They are called "history books". Perhaps you could find one of these books and tell me when what you've written above has ever happened.
I know you would LIKE for the above to be true. Little girls would also like to wake up one morning and have a pink pony. Both have equal chances of occurring.
dmougianis 5 months ago
@dmougianis I told you not to reply until you could answer my question instead of strawmanning. This still stands. Thanks.
gorgolyt 5 months ago
@dmougianis ...I think you should seriously look at your reply and 1. question why you had to resort to childish ad hominems and 2. question why you had to make ridiculous straw men instead of proper arguments.
I never suggested funding all of NASA by myself.
gorgolyt 5 months ago
@gorgolyt Because most people give a larg amount of money to the government in the form of taxes and they are missusing it, so i'd rather that they use the money they already get in a better way.
kokofan50 5 months ago
@gorgolyt if only the budgets for NASA and the NSA were reversed
spaarky13 2 months ago
@spaarky13 If only they were both abolished and people spent money researching technologies that will actually benefit the human race, such as cheap renewable solutions for developing countries, biotech for nutrition, etcetera.
gorgolyt 2 months ago
@gorgolyt All science ends up benefiting humanity in the long run. To say that a science like astronomy or astrophysics can't benefit humanity just because you can't seen an immediate benefit to yourself is just short-sighted.
yerk3 2 months ago
@yerk3 please try to make sense. it's debatable whether going to the moon has helped humanity in any way, but that wasn't the issue in the first place. the issue is that we have finite resources and have to decide what to do with them, and we should favour putting them into research that is desperately needed (into renewable energy, providing food and water to millions of deprived countries) rather than that which isn't.
gorgolyt 2 months ago
@gorgolyt You're absolutely right. But answer this question truthfully: knowing that the defense takes 59% of the whole budget, whereas NASA doesn't even get to the double digits, which one are you more willing to cut? I'd argue that urgent research, meaning research that's going to be fruitful in the short run, is needed, but so is pure research, which we know is going to be fruitful in the long run. Cutting one for the other, when you have HUGE room elsewhere, is just poor resource management.
Giby86 2 months ago 2
@Giby86 well i don't live in the US so your military budget will always look absolutely ridiculous. but 10% or more of state taxes going to space exploration? that would also be extremely disproportionate. i think there's a tendency for americans to confuse science in general with astronomy.
gorgolyt 2 months ago
@gorgolyt I'm not american either. Does it matter? Anyway, I'm not getting into how much spending would be appropriate. But since you said it's an issue of resource management, and I agree completely, what I'm interested in arguing is that a good management would be cutting those areas where the big numbers are, not those which are already struggling as it is. Do you realize that 1% of the military budget equals the entire NASA budget? Why not cut 1% to that and effectively double NASA funds?
Giby86 2 months ago 3
Oh, and also, do you know how high was the space exploration spending in the 60s, when NASA was flooded with money? 2 to 4.5% of the federal budget. And that brought us to the Moon. Don't you feel something if you think of what we could do if we had that 10% you think is "extremely disproportionate"? Expecially when it would mean having "only" 50% of the budget in defense instead of 60%?
Giby86 2 months ago
@Giby86 again like i say, because NASA does not equal science. i would put that 1% into energy research (fusion, for instance, or battery tech to make electric cars viable, or many many other things). or of course biology and stem cell research or HIV research or alternative nutrition research etc. etc. etc.
gorgolyt 2 months ago
@gorgolyt Ok, good thinking. But when that's done, what about taking another 1% and put it into NASA? What's the harm? It's not that a country that spends, say, 57% on defense is significantly less safe than a country that spends 59%, right? And besides, you can't forsee what uses will be make tomorrow of a research done today. You can't even forsee what other researches will be concievable tomorrow thanks to a research done today. It's either seeing science, as a whole, as a priority or not.
Giby86 2 months ago 2
@gorgolyt NASA is science. All science eventually benefits humanity. Just because you can't see the immediate benefit in the short term, doesn't mean that there is no benefit. This is the kind of thinking that fuels anti-intellectualism.
yerk3 2 months ago 3
@yerk3 'All science eventually benefits humanity'; oh okay, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons research eventually benefits us, does it?
Your kind of sloppy, dogmatic, dichotomising thinking is what fuels anti-intellectualism. Space research is yet to benefit humanity. We could put all of that money into energy, food, and disease research, and get tangible benefits NOW for people who are in dire need NOW. We have finite resources, so we need to decide how best to use them.
gorgolyt 2 months ago
@gorgolyt "Space research 'is' yet to benefit humanity"? Okay, I've read enough of what you have to say forever.
JLIV461 2 months ago 3
@JLIV461 certainly it hasn't benefited humanity as much as spending the money directly on research into technologies useful to humanity would have been.
why, what have been the major benefits?
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@yerk3 @yerk3 I understand that but in the same degree, we never did it to expand our knowledge of the universe. It was a pure foreign policy. I hate to say it but that was the case. In fact, Kennedy was freaking out when he saw the costs. Was it a great adventure? Yes. But the whole thing was an extension of containment. I like Space, but in the same token, when we have a budget deficit we will have to make some painful cuts.
bluesboy25000 2 months ago
Such passion from this man!!
MetalxXxMayhem 5 months ago
"That sum of money..."
- "Could reach Venus?" -- ROFL
thesimpsons2345 5 months ago
Keep your mouth shut woman.
bradtwo 5 months ago
Bill Maher is a tool
FIGHTFANNERD3 5 months ago
Tyson for President!
lewisbreland 5 months ago 69
WE NEED A PREACHER OF SCIENCE!!
this quote from bill came later - i agree!!
phishfearme2 5 months ago
Neil = smartest person there by 50
xxmdogxx1ify1 5 months ago 36
Dam, I thought Mike Tyson the boxer, not Neil Degrasse Tyson the Physicist, was the baddest man alive. Guess I was wrong.
bluegiant888 6 months ago
Wooo Tyson is the man
jpabla1263 6 months ago
2:55
Btw you could also say the say the same thing of the UK parliament.
JONNOG88 6 months ago
Technocracy ftw!
atlscribe 6 months ago
i love you neil
thatsfornoobs 6 months ago
everyone shut's up when the Dr. speaks. love you DR. Neil Degrasse Tyson
arsenalskate123 6 months ago
when was the last time we had a president this smart? never you say?
Al3xX420 6 months ago
why is he not president -
axisapex 6 months ago
this man should run for president.
aba2185 6 months ago
Word!
notsocommonshow 6 months ago
Brilliant commentary from Mr Degrasse Tyson.
thabzK 6 months ago
It's about time we wake up to Obama's crappy decisions
Iguana1138 6 months ago
We need scientific solutions! Not political contrivance!
Josephjoel3 6 months ago
The Constitution doesn't require the senator nor reprensative to have a law degree or education. Look at Bill Frist or Ron Paul
progKansas 6 months ago
Glenn beck will soon link Neil with Communism... LOL
puickj 6 months ago
All the top politicians in China are Engineers/scientist... Hu Jin Tao, Hydraulic engineer... Jiang Zemin Electrical engineer.... Wen JiaoBao, Geologist...
puickj 6 months ago
tyson is the man
runcycleskixc 6 months ago
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Tyson was off with his math on the size of a trillion, stacked one dollar bills when he said it could go to moon and back. $1= .003" inch.
1 Trillion of those multiplies 0.003 X 1 + 12 zeroes or (3 x 10 to the 9th power inches/ 12)/5280 = 47.348MI, less than 1/5 the distance to the moon still huge stack but not accurate.
arr4gtr 6 months ago
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arr4gtr 6 months ago
This seems like an imperfection in our legal system but it was addressed by the founding fathers and the constitution with the right of a jury to completely ignore the law and return a verdict they feel is "right" regardless of how the law reads. It's called jury nullification.
Judescott63 6 months ago
"I like screaming"
Oh, I bet she does....
bigbadbananaboy 6 months ago
Fuck Obama's drone ass. How come this guy couldn't have been the first black president? :|
BURNINATOR8 6 months ago
@BURNINATOR8 Obama isn't really the problem right now. The problem is congress. All they care about is that they get a pay check and they argue against something because their party says so.
Apollo580 6 months ago
*NAILED IT!* Ace!
insidious420 6 months ago
Neil should've been the 1st black president.. not Obama. We need a leader, not a politician, that has a vision, superior intelligence, and that can inspire people.
DankManBearPig 6 months ago
@DankManBearPig Problem is, I don't think he'd really want to.
It's an annoying paradox, really. The people who should be politicians don't want to be, and the people who want to be politicians are exactly the people who shouldn't be.
spacehelmetforacow 6 months ago 2
YEAH THATS RIGHT SHUT UP HOE
ieatwiteoutforfun 6 months ago
I think to hold office you must have at least a bachelors degree Major in Law and Business and a minor in a respected Art and/or Science and/or Engineering. Philosophy may be an excused minor. Being an athlete may bump up your chances as well. We shouldn't settle for less in our leaders.
whpr0 6 months ago
Dr Neil is a man out of his time, hes more like a philosopher with good intentions (compassionate) than hes a scientist. How come people that people pay more attention to Charlie Sheen than this man? Or even Glen Beck'
LxPxRxPunk 6 months ago 3
Dr Neil is a man out of his time, hes more like a philosopher with good intentions (compassionate) than hes a scientist. How come people that people pay more attention to Charlie Sheen than this man?
LxPxRxPunk 6 months ago
Ron Paul isn't a lawyer, a businessman... He's a fantastic doctor, I wonder if Neil likes him?
ronniepage 6 months ago
He was speaking the truth!!!
leandrelevel 6 months ago
HOW TRUE !! WHERE IS THE REST OF LIFE???????
latabeatles 6 months ago
I agree with Neil Degrasse tyson. I have watched him many times on the various series on the Universe and others and like him.
Yes where are the engineers, businessmen, scientists in congress?
It shows that all these damned lawyers in our politics are ruining the country.
We need a proper mix of representatives in govt.
It also shows that people tend to vote for big talkers. Who can sling the maximum b.s..
latabeatles 6 months ago
Neil is awesome.
Saukko31 6 months ago
I don't always like Neil Degrasse Tyson, but when I do, it's because he connects the dots.
rcguy69 6 months ago
Many scientist love America and now that she is dying they realize they are the only people passionate and competent enough to save her. We will see more and more intellectuals running for office as the country gets worse off. Get ready for an enlightenment America.
wackmywalrus69 6 months ago 70
@wackmywalrus69 amen, brother
tyrannosaurusinf14 6 months ago
@wackmywalrus69
I desperately hope you are right but it may well be too little too late. How I'd love to see a scientific coup (as opposed to the more usual military coup) of our government!
lamiastrix 6 months ago
@wackmywalrus69 God, I hope you're right.
TheSimonScowl 6 months ago
@wackmywalrus69 I really hope you are right.
whpr0 6 months ago
@wackmywalrus69
I prefer my science to be non-politicized. :-)
KyleSkullz 6 months ago
@wackmywalrus69 naa, if their smart they will move to Scandinavian countries and china. Get ready for the brain drain of america
fallenempireoverdrve 6 months ago
@fallenempireoverdrve And, speaking as a Swede, they're more than welcome. Intelligence is sexy. ;)
Seriously though, Dr. deGrasse Tyson is a wonderfully smart man and a joy to listen to. And he's right in that we need dreams and aspirations.
agehanokimi 5 months ago
@agehanokimi dream suggestions
1. colonization of mars
2.complete removal of fossil fuels from our daily lives
3.an egalitarian world where everybody has adequate food, clothes and opportunities
fallenempireoverdrve 5 months ago
@agehanokimi Isn't anti immigration growing in Scandinavian countries? I would love to move to one but that growing trend is discouraging me. Stay in America where anti science is growing or move to country that doesn't have that problem but hard for immigrants to fit in. I don't know, I'm just an outsider looking in. You would know more about that than I.
HybridD91 5 months ago
@HybridD91 I don't know much about the subject, but anti-immigration there is probably mostly just related to people who aren't as optimum immigrants... like ones with poor English/native language skills, and don't have much education or working prospect. Even muslim/christian might be a factor, but considering the liberal views, probably not.
I don't know that's what it is for sure, but that's how I think it would be. If you are a good candidate to immigrate there, they will still let you in.
MsHojat 5 months ago
@wackmywalrus69 Beautifully said. I can only pray (haha) that it comes true.
mugflub 5 months ago
Neil is spot on! The moment we stop dreaming as Americans is the moment we are finished!
mfatah281 6 months ago 3
I love the part about giving people something to dream about.
Maybe thats what missing with a lot of people these days.
And anyone who dares dream about a better world is laughed at.
Zidriz 6 months ago
Tyson is the next Sagan.
rlkalal 6 months ago
@rlkalal -- They're doing another "Cosmos" series and Tyson will be the host. Release date is sometime in 2013.
nthomas87 6 months ago
Where can I watch the full episode?
luisdez81 6 months ago
@luisdez81 type in watch real time (date) into google
you might have to go to a shady site (makes a mac worth the money) but you can get a megavideo type video
DennisfromDC 6 months ago
@DennisfromDC will do, thanx.
luisdez81 6 months ago
@luisdez81 -- I typed it in online. I found a site that I had a lot of ads I had to close, but nothing serious. Just look. You'll find it. It was great.
nthomas87 6 months ago
@nthomas87 ok,thanx.
luisdez81 6 months ago
I have always said that if a person holds a law degree it should be considered a conflict of interest and disqualify them form holding office!
487shawn 6 months ago 36
@487shawn First, no you haven't. Second, it makes no sense because the fundamental function of the Congress is to make laws. To disqualify a person for holding a law degree is ridiculous. There are many different types of law that branches into all aspects of "life." You have patent and copyright lawyers who specialize in a field of science besides law. You have business lawyers who study business on top of law. Conflicts of interest exists with the individual, not their profession.
acyu 6 months ago 2
@487shawn Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams. What do they all have in common? They're all lawyers.
shansyn 4 months ago
@shansyn yes and they should have been consultans and not members of the congress! if you study how they manipulated the laws to suit whatever desires they wanted outside of the people's intrests at the time you will see lawyer need to be at the bottom of the ocean, or at least aborted at birth!
487shawn 4 months ago
@487shawn I take serious insult to those last few claims. To generalize that all lawyers deserve to be aborted is ignorant and distasteful. What it demonstrates to me and any sensible individual who reads your comments is that you can't uphold an intellectual conversation without advocating a discrimination based on a profession. Serves me right for engaging in a conversation on youtube. Cheers. Ignorance is universal.
shansyn 4 months ago
@shansyn how about post abortion? or at least occupational castration? how about people who get caught up in the intricacies of an obscure concept at the expense of the overall truth of the matter at hand? how about like the man says its all about the argument and not about progressing? yes the very nature of what it takes to be a lawyer disqualifies them from holding office in the public realm which need to progress not get bogged down in argumentive process about whos right!
487shawn 4 months ago
@487shawn So being a current law student according to you I should have been aborted or be castrated or whatever while punishment your pathetic soul can conjure. But let me go beyond you petulant hatred. You claim that lawyers are only concerned about the argument and not the progression. I got news for you: your current legal system is designed that way so don't hold the lawyer of a defendant accountable. Everybody, regardless of their crime has the right to an attorney and is deemed
shansyn 4 months ago
Respond to this video... 2: innocent until proven guilty. You then go on to claim that the nature of a lawyer should disqualify them from office? Well who do you propose take their place? Do you even know how politics works and how laws are made? Better yet we run a democracy: you should not be electing lawyers into office then if you have such an issue with them. Tyson's opinion of law is very one-sided. The reason the constitution of American and many countries exist because :
shansyn 4 months ago
Respond to this video... 3: The bill was written by those that know the law: lawyers. Politics are argumentative by nature. Opinions will always conflict but rather than relying on wars and violence I would like to imagine that humanity continues to evolve and resolve issues via the pen and not the sword and that is done through a legal system. It seems your issue with lawyers is fickle. Or you seem rather uninformed. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
shansyn 4 months ago
@shansyn I see what your saying but some of the people who are never mentioned as the building blocks for our consitution were military men, scientist, and farmers.
ShinoShaw 4 months ago
@shansyn There's a difference, though. These were people with a vision, with legitimate ideas on how to agree with each other and forge forward in founding the country. That can't be said about the politicians of today.
adi87tya 2 months ago
We thought it was really insightful, and exactly the right message the US needs. Thanks for the comment
TheFutureOfTheUS 6 months ago 33