NASA: Increasing the Awesome

Contemplating the ritual of sending Washington a check every April 15, popular Internet vlogger Hank Green of Vlogbrothers explains why he believes NASA is worth every .45 penny of your hard-earned tax dollar.

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[Kacey Roberts]

So true! To the people saying NASA has become too political, the reality is that politicians think they are becoming scientific. Lets leave sceince to scientists and politics to the citizens.

[OneAndOnlySnob]

Max Headroom here makes some good points.

[jay Day]

If only.

[tylerfh2012]

YES

[Patchie Deth]

I work in a lab that experiments with countermeasures for the ISS. NASA and NSBRI fund our research and, it is true, our work has become rather political as the government has been hacking and slashing at funds toward education and science for quite some time now. Squabbling over funds makes it difficult to co-operate with others in our field - we have to play everything close to the chest lest we risk sharing too much with a stingy collaborator and lose funding to them. We need more awesome.

[Roginald Toftsdale]

National Association of Suck Abolishing

[lasarousi]

worried about giving money to awesome? first world problems

[ShiroKage009]

Science done by NASA is some of the best in the world. Although my interests lie more towards Genetics and molecular biology, the stuff done there still blows my mind away.

Now if only NASA would stop blowing rockets up, they'd be almost perfect!

[jacksonnicholls]

He's a musician.

[Andrew Robles]

If it means going to Mars or Europa, I would GLADLY give NASA more of my money. How about it people? I think it's time for donations!

[Commando61]

Sub'd because of this vid haha.