The Future of NASA with Neil deGrasse Tyson

How much would you pay for the universe?

Neil deGrasse Tyson at UB: What NASA Means to America's Future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhNZENMG1o

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[GalacticApple]

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!

[Coldannon]

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.

[aroblesCG]

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.

[windowboy]

i thought that was Kermit talking

[yosymitiesam1]

Tyson for President

[CosmicQuandary]

@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. :)

[benjaminluckinbill07]

Anyone know what the music is?

[DAVROSS44]

@Astrophysicsist totally agree mate.

[DAVROSS44]

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?"

[Astrophysicsist]

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.

[scorpion101]

Papyrus?? really??

[sirriNfrank]

@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!